Kenji Hakuta, professor emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, talks about how the Common Core educational standards were set and why standards exist in the first place.

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Ira Lit, director of Stanford’s Elementary Teacher Education Program, discusses how parents can prepare their kids for school and some of the ways teachers can prepare to meet the needs of their students.

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Jennifer Wolf, senior lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, discusses young adult literature, banned books, and whether or not it is easy to find the next big hit in the genre that spawned recent classics like Harry Potter and The Hunger Games.

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Mitchell Stevens, associate professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, shares his expertise on college path planning and how the use of a web-based tool called Carta is helping students plan their college course trajectory.

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Ari Kelman, the Jim Joseph Chair in Education and Jewish Studies and associate professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education , discusses religion in schools, the sense of belonging faith creates, and how people learn about religion following an epiphany.

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Linda Darling-Hammond, President and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and professor emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, shares her top five suggestions to improve America’s schools and prepare students to compete for 21st century jobs.

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Michael Kirst, California State Board of Education president and professor emeritus of education and business administration at Stanford, shares his insights on how schools are funded and why they are financed that way.

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Shashank Joshi, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford School of Medicine, discusses how schools are tackling mental health issues and how teachers and school staff are being trained to identify at-risk students.

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David Labaree, professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, gives us a historical perspective on how and why America’s college and university systems developed from the pre-Revolutionary War times into the present.

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Janet Carlson, associate professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, talks about her work to improve education in the classroom through professional development offerings for teachers.

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