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Los Angeles Fires Update: Community and Schools - Passing Period #144
This Week: Everyone has seen the news of the devastating fires that have hit the LA area. Today Manuel shares the perspective of an educator at the f…
1 year, 4 months ago
New Ed Laws in CA and AR Federal Judge Blocks Draconian Book Bans - Passing Period #143
This Week: We're back for 2025 and we know talking about politics can be a bit, exhausting now. But, all hope is not lost! There’s good news at the s…
1 year, 4 months ago
#116 - Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education w/ Jesse Hagopian!
Nearly half of our nation’s public school children are subject to laws that forbid honest education about the history of racism in this country. Two-…
1 year, 5 months ago
Colleges Write Off Rural Students and Cut Majors, Programs - Passing Period #142
This Week: A fascinating story about what’s happening to higher ed in rural America out of the Hechinger Report reveals that across the country optio…
1 year, 5 months ago
Recess For The Win And Pro Wrestling Comes to Public Ed - Passing Period #141
This Week: We’re tired of talking about right wing nonsense… but they got the former head of the WWE ready to be in charge of the nation’s education …
1 year, 6 months ago
Unification of Church and State: Updates From the Front Lines of the Battle for Public Education - Passing Period #140
This Week: Oklahoma State Supt Ryan Walters makes a truly dystopian video that he “mandated” all schools show to the students announcing the creation…
1 year, 6 months ago
The End of Education As We Know It… Or Not - Passing Period #139
This Week: It was a rough week y'all. You know it. We know it. The forces of hate and oppression are out here. Trump is going to get rid of the US De…
1 year, 6 months ago
Rich Kids Buy Their Way Into USC and Black and Brown Educators Plan to Leave LA Schools - Passing Period #138
This Week: Despite the right-wing hysteria that would have you believe wokeness and DEI are undermining the quality of America’s colleges, it turns o…
1 year, 6 months ago
#115 - College Uncovered w/ Kirk Carapezza of GBH News!
Encampments raided, college presidents sacked, student loan forgiveness struck down, DEI programs abolished, and free speech battles raging–what in t…
1 year, 7 months ago
Novels Are Disappearing From School… Should We Bring Them Back? - Passing Period #137
This Week: Amidst a culture of short attention spans, TikTok videos, 30 second sound bites, and 24 hour news cycles, it’s perhaps not surprising that…
1 year, 7 months ago