The Education Exchange

Paul E. Peterson

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A weekly podcast highlighting education policy news, hosted by Paul E. Peterson, Senior editor of Education Next

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Ep. 388 - April 14, 2025 - Blue State Blues

Michael Hartney, a fellow at the Hoover Institution and assistant professor of political science at Boston College, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss their new joint research, which finds that states that voted for Kamala Harris in the last presidential election saw more learning loss following the Covid-19 pandemic than those that voted for Donald Trump, according to the most recent results from the 2014 National Assessment of Education Progress. "Red States Have Seen Less Learning Loss," co-written by Hartney and Peterson, is available now. https://www.educationnext.org/red-states-have-seen-less-learning-loss-post-pandemic-scores-nations-report-card-naep/

23 min
APR 2

Ep. 387 - April 7, 2025 - The State of Our Schools Five Years after Covid

Thomas Kane, the Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how school districts have been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, and how districts need to pivot from short-term recovery to long-term strategies to improve student outcomes. The latest edition of the Education Recovery Scorecard is available now. https://educationrecoveryscorecard.org/

42 min
MAR 24

Ep. 386 - March 31, 2025 - Reckoning with the Failures of the Covid Era

Stephen Macedo, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Macedo's new book, "In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us."

47 min
MAR 20

Ep. 385 - March 24, 2025 - Once-Thriving Charter Schools Sailing into Troubled Waters

Steven Wilson, a Senior Fellow at Center on Reinventing Public Education, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Wilson's new book, The Lost Decade: Returning to the Fight for Better Schools in America.

35 min
MAR 12

Ep. 384 - March 17, 2025 - Charter Schools at Center of Urban Policy Dispute in Los Angeles

Jennifer Hochschild, the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government at Harvard University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Hochschild's latest book, "Race/Class Conflict and Urban Financial Threat."

38 min
FEB 28

Ep. 383 - March 10, 2025 - Why DOGE Cuts at IES Are Incredibly Inefficient

Adam Gamoran, the president of the William T. Grant Foundation, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how the Trump Administration's contract cancellations will effect the Institute of Education Sciences.

28 min
FEB 13

Ep. 382 - March 3, 2025 - Holding the Line in Los Angeles

Nick Melvoin, member of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how LAUSD have responded to the Palisades wildfires, and reactions to the latest NAEP results in the district.

32 min
FEB 5

Ep. 379 - Feb. 10, 2025 - Constitutionality of Religious Charter Schools Suddenly on the Brink

Clint Bolick, the 44th Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how the Supreme Court agreeing to take up the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond case, and what it could mean for the future of charter schools and religious education in the United States.

23 min

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Episode 342

05/14/2024

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The first problematic episode. No conversation about parenting & family life. Solutions for children begins with and must be centered on parents & family. Equality should be the goal not equity. Capitalism has been the driver to lift people around the world out of poverty. The best way to help children is regain a focus and value on core academic curriculum (think reading, history & arithmetic). SEL is a distraction & diversion whose increase in schools & after school government funded programs continues to correlate with the rise of depression & anxiety in youth.