EdNext Podcast

A professor of education policy at the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education, Julie A. Marsh, joins Education Next editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss education reform in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Read "Building on Shaky Ground: Reforming a divided school system in Los Angeles," by Marsh and Susan Bush-Mecenas.

https://www.educationnext.org/building-shaky-ground-reforming-divided-school-system-los-angeles/

An associate professor of higher education at Boston College, Angela Boatman, joins Education Next Editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss new research that investigates the effectiveness of two Tennessee policies that offered alternatives to traditional remediation requirements for college math.

Her article, "Is College Remediation a Barrier or Boost?," co-written with Thomas J. Kane, Whitney Kozakowski, Christopher Bennett, Rachel Hitch, and Dana Weisenfeld, is available now.

https://www.educationnext.org/college-remediation-barrier-boost-evidence-from-tennessee/

The founder of the Charles Sposato Graduate School of Education, Mike Goldstein (pictured), sits down with Education Next editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss how "fixed" income share agreements have made the school an attractive destination, reducing risk for students and increasing transparency of outcomes.

Goldstein and Scott McCue wrote the recent Education Next blog post, "How Income Share Agreements Helped our Education School Grow."

https://www.educationnext.org/how-income-share-agreements-helped-education-school-grow

An associate professor at the School of Public Affairs at American University, Seth Gershenson, joins Education Next editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss Gershenson's new article, "End the Easy A," which explores how grade inflation affect student success.

The full article is available here:

https://www.educationnext.org/end-easy-a-tougher-grading-standards-set-students-up-success/

A group from Excel Academy in Boston joined Education Next Editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss how the charter network works to accommodate students with special needs, including English language learners and those with disabilities, into their program.

Included in the discussion are chief executive officer Owen Stearns, network director of student supports Sarah Kantrowitz, and ELL specialist Lucero Castillo.

Excel Academy was featured in the article "Inclusion in Action" by E. B. Solomont.

https://www.educationnext.org/inclusion-action-expectations-for-all-excel-academy-boston/

Robin J. Lake, the director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education at University of Washington Bothell, joins Education Next Editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss how school choice has succeeded in Indianapolis.

Read Lake's full article, "The Hoosier Way: Good choices for all in Indianapolis."

https://www.educationnext.org/hoosier-way-good-choices-for-all-indianapolis/

Joshua Dunn, a professor of political science at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, joins Education Next Editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss the Supreme Court case Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, which challenges Montana’s ban on tax-credit scholarships to religious schools.

Dunn broke down the oral arguments further in "Burying Blaine?," available here:

https://www.educationnext.org/espinoza-v-montana-oral-arguments-blaine-supreme-court/

Michael J. Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and an executive editor at Education Next, joins Editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss the Common Core State Standards Initiative and why there is still time to see positive results from the shift to national standards.

Read his full essay, as well as two alternate stances, in our forum, “A Decade On, Has Common Core Failed?”

https://www.educationnext.org/stay-course-on-national-standards-forum-decade-on-has-common-core-failed/

https://www.educationnext.org/decade-on-has-common-core-failed-impact-national-standards-forum-polikoff-petrilli-loveless/

Education Next Editor-in-chief Marty West and Managing Editor Ira Stoll sit down to review the Top 20 articles and Top 10 blog posts of 2019.

https://www.educationnext.org/top-20-education-next-articles-2019/

https://www.educationnext.org/top-10-education-next-blog-entries-2019/

Morgan Polikoff, an Associate Professor at the Rossier School of Education at USC, joins Education Next Editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss a new report which studies the quality of online curriculum materials available to teachers.

Polikoff recently wrote a blog post "The Supplemental Curriculum Bazaar" for Education Next, and his full report, co-authored with Jennifer Dean, is available.

https://www.educationnext.org/supplemental-curriculum-bazaar-is-whats-online-any-good/

https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/research/supplemental-curriculum-bazaar