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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The Dropout Nation Podcast: What Education As a Civil Right Really Means

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On this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast (../?cat=492), I explain what it should mean for education to be the leading civil rights issue of this era. School reformers and others make this statement eve...

Rewind: The Dropout Nation Podcast: Five Questions Every Parent Should Ask

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As you head into the weekend, listen in on this rebroadcast of this Dropout Nation Podcast (../category/dropout-nation-podcast/page/category/dropout-nation-podcast/) on how to improve education for their children throu...

The Dropout Nation Podcast: Iron Sharpens Iron

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On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast (http://dropoutnation.net/category/dropout-nation-podcast/), I issue a call to black men of character everywhere to stem the dropout crisis among our young black...

The Dropout Nation Podcast: Rallying Voters Around School Reform

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On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast (http://dropoutnation.net/?cat=492), I discuss why school reformers haven't been able to translate their success in gaining attention to the problems of American...

The Dropout Nation Podcast: The Dropout Crisis Beyond Cities

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On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast (../category/category/category/dropout-nation-podcast/), I explain why one must stop thinking about big cities as being the only epicenters of the dropout crisi...

The Dropout Nation Podcast: Save Young Men

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The Dropout Nation Podcast: Steps Toward Developing Better Teachers

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On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, I take a look at the effort in Florida to end teacher tenure (http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20100327/BREAKINGNEWS/100326023/Florida-may-become-first-state-t...

The Dropout Nation Podcast: The Next Steps for Race to the Top

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On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast (http://dropoutnation.net/?cat=492), I look at the efforts by the Obama administration to bring districts into Race to the Top (http://www2.ed.gov/programs/raceto...

The Dropout Nation Podcast: Fostering Impromptu Leaders for School Reform

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On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, I comb through school desegregation efforts in this past century to show how school reformers can foster new leaders from the most-unlikely of men and women. For...

The Dropout Nation Podcast: Building Ties Between School Reformers and Grassroot Activists

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On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast (http://dropoutnation.net/?cat=492), I explain why school reformers need to reach out to grassroots activists. Inside-the-Beltway policymaking, important as it is...


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