Busted Pencils

Guests Michael Fullan and Joanna Rizzotto join the team of Dr. Tim and Dr. Johnny to discuss some of the most pressing issues in education today – Who abandoned whom? Who’s leaving who behind? The teachers – or, the system itself?

Tim and Johnny are here to discuss the new era of No Child Left Behind, a relic of an older time in education that some Republicans are trying to resurrect for their own benefit.

Dr. Tim and Dr. Johnny are live from outside the state with in-state expert Ruth Conniff to discuss how Wisconsin public schools are under attack.

After a 9th grader asked him how to study parallel universes, Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel was appalled. Not at the question, but at the opening of the child’s letter: a 9th grader that has already been asked to choose the career of the rest of their lives. How do we handle this? Tim and Johnny are here to discuss.

10 years ago, Dr. Nancy Bailey wrote a paper on all the ways we were harming our schools. Now, her list has gotten even longer. Johnny’s not here, but class is in session for Dr. Tim and Producer Anya.

Johnny and Tim are joined by Carol Burris to discuss the trampling of our education system.

If you wish upon a busted pencil… nothing will probably happen. BUT BustED Pencils is answering your back-to-school wishes today! What do today’s instructors need? Want? Crave? Find out on tonight’s episode.

Johnny and Tim are joined by return guest Jason Glass, the soon-to-be former Commissioner of Education for the state of Kentucky. Jason is leaving this positing after great hateful changes have swept his state, and what that means for the states beyond.

Harvey Kaye, professor emeritus at UW – Green Bay, joins Tim and Johnny tonight to discuss his book “Thomas Paine and the Promise of America” as well as the struggles that faced both Paine and us in modern education.

Tim and Johnny are joined by Steven D. Grumbine of Real Progressives to discuss modern monetary theory and how it applies to student debt relief.