School Reform News Podcast

The Heartland Institute

The Heartland Institute podcast featuring libertarian and conservative scholars who are working to bring school choice to every family, and break up the monopoly of our failing government-run public education system.

  1. 10/31/2023

    Private Choices & Public Hypocrisy: The Teachers Union President Controversy

    The executive president of one of the nation’s largest teachers unions is under fire for the revelation that her eldest son attends a private school. Teachers unions universally oppose school choice programs that include private schools, and in doing so they deny education opportunities to children whose parents cannot afford to pay for them to leave the deteriorating public schools. This is an especially troubling problem in nearly all the nation’s big cities, where the public schools are plagued by poor student achievement, disorderly behavior in classrooms and other facilities, disastrous teaching methods based on ridiculous fads, and politicized curricula. Denisha Allen, a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children and founder of Black Minds Matter, joins School Reform News to discuss this problem.

    Private Choices & Public Hypocrisy: The Teachers Union President Controversy

  2. 05/10/2023

    Kids Have Never Been More Ignorant of U.S. History

    The other day, Heartland Institute Editorial Director Chris Talgo, was on the Rod Arquette Show in Salt Lake City, Utah to talk about the pathetic results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The nation’s report card found that only 13 percent of 8th graders are considered proficient in US History.    Chris is a former U.S. History teacher in the public schools of the Chicago Suburbs and a small town in South Carolina. That was almost a decade ago, and even back then Chris was shocked at how little his students knew about American history. And now the results are even worse.   Why is it getting worse? Chris explains in this excerpt from the Rod Arquette show. Have a listen.

    Kids Have Never Been More Ignorant of U.S. History

  3. 10/05/2022

    Education Freedom Report Card (Guest: Jonathan Butcher)

    Heartland's Tim Benson is joined by Jonathan Butcher, the Will Skillman Fellow in Education at The Heritage Foundation, to discuss Heritage's new Education Freedom Report Card. They chat about the report's methodology, which states ranked highly and which states ranked poorly, and the information and lessons it can provide both parents and policymakers.

  4. 08/01/2022

    Prospects for Universal School Choice in Texas (Guest: Kent Grusendorf)

    Today on the Heartland Daily Podcast, Senior Editor Joe Barnett talks with former state Rep. Kent Grusendorf, who is a long-time education reformer. They discuss the unprecedented support for universal school choice legislation and the impacts victories by parents in recent school board races has had. Grusendorf explains how support for school choice has never been higher. Parents want to see their dollars going towards funding their child’s education, not funding a school which fails them.

  5. 07/19/2022

    Critical Race Theory Suffers Defeat in Texas (Guest: Craig Ownby)

    Today on the Heartland Daily Podcast, Senior Editor Joe Barnett talks with Texas Political Consultant Craig Ownby about a recent 'nonpartisan' school board election in Mansfield, Texas that saw the election of four conservative candidates opposing leftist supporters of critical race theory. Barnett and Ownby also discuss the prospects for school choice in Texas.

  6. 01/12/2022

    America’s Best and Worst Metro Areas for School Quality (Guest: Adam Tyner)

    In this episode of the School Reform News podcast, Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Adam Tyner, associate director of research at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, to discuss Fordham’s new report, America’s Best and Worst Metro Areas for School Quality. Find out how they quantify their rankings, whether the "best" public schools have the highest achievement, which metros fared well, and which metros fared poorly. Check out the interactive report here: https://metro.fordhaminstitute.org/

  7. 09/08/2021

    Miseducation Propaganda in U.S. Schools

    Miseducation is U.S. public schools is seemingly getting worse by the day. From Howard Zinn textbooks to Critical Race Theory, our students are being fed anti-American propaganda on a daily basis. Stopping Socialism's Donald Kendal and Chris Talgo explain in this episode of "Stopping Socialism."

  8. 09/01/2021

    Critical Race Theory and “The Authoritarians”

    Heartland's Tim Benson is joined by constitutional and administrative lawyer Jonathan W. Emord to discuss his op-ed on critical race theory as well as his new book The Authoritarians: Their Assault on Individual Liberty, the Constitution, and Free Enterprise from the 19th Century to the Present.

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The Heartland Institute podcast featuring libertarian and conservative scholars who are working to bring school choice to every family, and break up the monopoly of our failing government-run public education system.

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  • Creator
    The Heartland Institute
  • Years Active
    2010 - 2023
  • Episodes
    26
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © The Heartland Institute
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    School Reform News Podcast