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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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Jim Shelton, head of the education arm of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, discusses that organization's efforts to improve education through smart investment.
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Keith Coleman, Chief Strategy Officer at the Tesla Foundation, a science and tech think tank dealing with autonomous innovations in our culture, sits down for a conversation.
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Thomas Schnaubelt, the executive director of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford, explains how service learning differs from community service, and what benefits students get from combing service and scholarship.
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Martin Carnoy, professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, says international rankings can mislead the public into believing that America has a terrible education system. Carnoy explains how to understand the rankings, including what to believe and what to be skeptical about.
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Anne Fernald, a developmental psychologist who directs the Language Learning Lab at Stanford University, explains why it's important to talk to your kids, even when they are infants. Fernald's research shows that babies who are spoken to in an engaging and nurturing way tend to develop faster word processing skills, which helps their development more generally.
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Nicole Ardoin, an associate professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and the Woods Institute for the Environment, discusses how learning about the outdoors and environment can have a positive impact on kids in the classroom and beyond.
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