Guest speaker Professor Francis Pearman explains the impacts of pre-k studies on 3rd-grade achievement in low-income environments.

Can educator's restorative practices reduce student suspensions in public schools? Peter Williamson - an Associate Professor (Teaching) of Education at Stanford University and Faculty Director of the Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP) for Secondary Teachers - discusses the question with our hosts.

Eric Burmeister - Menlo Park, CA, Superintendent of Schools - talks about his top priorities as a change maker in raising student achievement levels through innovation and strategic leadership.

Hosts Dan Schwartz and Denise Pope have a discussion with John Willinsky, examining the feasibility of publishing cooperatives that bring together libraries, journals, scholarly societies, and other institutions as a financially sustainable open access model for peer-reviewed scholarly publishing.

Do brain-training exercises really work to strengthen memory and learning as we get older? Guest Laura Carstensen, Director of the Stanford Center on Longevity and Stanford professor of Public Policy, weighs in on the conversation.

Patricia Bromley, an assistant professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, discusses how textbooks incorporate attitudes and ways of looking at the world.

Ramón Martínez, an assistant professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, discusses how early exposure to multiple languages and code switching can enhance children’s communication skills, even when children are effectively monolingual.

Tomás Jiménez, an associate professor of sociology and comparative studies in race and ethnicity at Stanford University, discusses how immigrants choose to move to certain areas based on the school system and how those immigrant communities change the schools themselves.

Jonathan Osborne, a professor of science education, emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, talks about teaching science in K-12 schools. As an author of the Next Generation Science Standards, he is responsible for many of the changes in how kids learn science today.

Thomas Ehrlich, an adjunct professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, discusses the history of how student activism has led to social change.