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Beth Akers on Student Loan Forgiveness
On this episode of The Report Card, Nat interviews Beth Akers, senior fellow at AEI and the coauthor of Game of Loans: The Rhetoric and Reality of St…
4 years ago
Emily Morton and Dan Goldhaber on The Consequences of Remote and Hybrid Instruction During the Pandemic
On the latest episode of The Report Card, Nat interviews Emily Morton and Dan Goldhaber about their new paper The Consequences of Remote and Hybrid I…
4 years, 1 month ago
Ilana Horwitz on the Impact of Religion on Student Outcomes
On the latest episode of The Report Card, Nat interviews Ilana Horwitz, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Sociology at Tulane, about her new …
4 years, 1 month ago
Grow Your Own Teacher
It's a challenge for school systems to recruit and retain quality teachers, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This challenge has spurr…
4 years, 1 month ago
Race in Admissions and Financial Aid Price-Fixing Schemes
Two upcoming court cases, one a Supreme Court case on affirmative action at Harvard and the other a federal court case on financial aid price-fixing …
4 years, 2 months ago
Mask mandates in schools
Over the course of the pandemic, masking requirements—particularly school masking requirements—have been a flashpoint issue.
So: what is going on in s…
4 years, 2 months ago
Neighborhood school choice
We've talked a lot on the show about school choice. But it's not often we discuss intra-district choice - choice between schools in the same district…
4 years, 3 months ago
Bleakness in American schooling
American schooling has been on a bumpy road the past few years. COVID-19 is the obvious issues here, but it's not only that. Students have increasing…
4 years, 3 months ago
COVID-19 relief for schools: where are we at?
In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic put a halt to traditional schooling. In response to the, then, relatively unknown threat of COVID-19, Congress s…
4 years, 4 months ago
The year of school choice
The COVID-19 pandemic has seemingly touched everything in education policy, and school choice is no exception. Since the start of the pandemic and, p…
4 years, 4 months ago