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Randi Weingarten on the Teaching Profession
On the right, teachers’ unions are often treated as the bogeyman, and no one today is more synonymous with teachers’ unions than Randi Weingarten. In…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Math Academy (with Jason Roberts and Justin Skycak)
Can students learn math much faster than they typically do? Can students who feel like they have hit a wall in math instruction make steady progress …
5 months ago
2025 in Review
We are now coming to the end of another year. What were the biggest stories in education this year? What stories didn’t get as much attention as they…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Should AI Be Used in Classrooms Today?
In classrooms across the nation, students and teachers are using AI—but should they be?
AI’s advocates argue that it can be used to individualize inst…
6 months ago
Alpha School (with MacKenzie Price)
One of the hottest names in education right now is Alpha School. A network of high-end private schools founded in Texas but with additional locations…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Education and the Second Trump Administration, 303 Days In
On this episode of The Report Card, Nat Malkus, Rick Hess, and Andy Rotherham discuss what recent elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York Cit…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Lessons from Pandemic-Era Tutoring (with Liz Cohen)
For decades, there has been research showing that tutoring can be a highly effective mode of instruction, but before 2020, large, in-school tutoring …
7 months, 1 week ago
Houston, We Have a Solution (with Mike Miles)
In August 2023, right after he took over as superintendent of Houston ISD, Mike Miles came on The Report Card to talk about his plans for Texas’s lar…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Do Phones Make Students Less Able to Focus? (with Dan Willingham)
TikTok. Instagram. Constant notifications. Many worry that phones are destroying students’ ability to pay attention and, in turn, their ability to le…
8 months, 1 week ago
Why Are Test Scores Falling? (with James Wyckoff and Chad Aldeman)
Earlier this month, 2024 NAEP scores came out for 8th grade science and 12th grade reading and math, and the results were not good, with students los…
8 months, 3 weeks ago