The Dropout Nation Podcast

The Dropout Nation Podcast

RiShawn Biddle

Description: Coverage of the reform of American Public Education and the nation's dropout crisis. Edited by RiShawn Biddle

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Best of The Dropout Nation Podcast: Rallying Voters Around School Reform

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As you check out Editor RiShawn Biddle's latest American Spectator column on the likelihood of Mitt Romney embracing former president George W. Bush's school reform agenda, listen to the Best of The Dropout Nation P...

The Dropout Nation Podcast: Politically Mobilizing School Reform

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On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast (http://dropoutnation.net/category/dropout-nation-podcast/), RiShawn Biddle observes the politically craven behavior of politicians in Connecticut, Alabama, and Washington State, be...

Best of The Dropout Nation Podcast: Forging Iron Men

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As you read today's New York Daily News piece by Dropout Nation Editor RiShawn Biddle and Why Boys Fail author Richard Whitmire on why the rhetoric over the supposed "war on women" obscures the real crisis among young m...

The Dropout Nation Midweek Monitor: Schott and Zip Code Education, Charters in Alabama, and Releasing Teacher Data

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On this week's Monitor (http://dropoutnation.net/category/dropout-nation-midweek-monitor/), RiShawn Biddle takes a look at the Schott Foundation's latest report (http://schottfoundation.org/drupal/docs/redlining-full-report.pdf) on educational opportunities for poor and minority kids; observes the d...

The Dropout Nation Podcast: Transform Education to Bend the Arc of History

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On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast (http://dropoutnation.net/category/dropout-nation-podcast/), RiShawn Biddle takes a look at the progress of American history from 1890 to today, and explains why overhauling public...

The Dropout Nation Podcast: Keep Kids Out of Special Ed

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On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle takes a look at the nation's special education ghettos and explains how they exacerbate the nation's education crisis. Contrary to what House Education and the Workf...

The Conversation at Dropout Nation: Gwen Samuel and Hartford Parents on the Importance of Parent Power

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On this month's Conversation, Editor RiShawn Biddle chats with Connecticut Parents Union President Gwen Samuel and mothers running the Hartford Parents Organization about their efforts to champion school choice and teac...

The Dropout Nation Podcast: Embrace the Power of Families

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On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle discusses the need for Beltway school reformers and education traditionalists to embrace a more-expansive view of school choice and Parent Power. Families need the p...

The Dropout Nation Midweek Monitor: Duncan Vs. Kline, Teacher Data, and Jerry Brown’s Drama

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On this week's Monitor (http://dropoutnation.net/category/dropout-nation-midweek-monitor/), Editor RiShawn Biddle previews Arne Duncan's testimony before Minnesota Congressman John Kline and the House Education and the Workforce Committee; focuses on the battle in New York State over the release of...

The Dropout Nation Podcast: Save Our Trayvons Through School Reform

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On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast (http://dropoutnation.net/category/dropout-nation-podcast/), RiShawn Biddle takes a look at the Trayvon Martin murder and explains how each and every day, American public education...
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