The Dropout Nation Podcast

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On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast (http://dropoutnation.net/category/dropout-nation-podcast/), I detail the economic and social value of education for our kids, communities, economy and nation. Mo...

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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...

(http://dropoutnation.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/dropoutnation_itunes_cover-e1263771405201.png)On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast (../category/category/category/dropout-nation-podcast/), I take a look at the Schott Foundation's report on black males and offer reminders that the achievement ga...

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This week's Dropout Nation Podcast (../category/category/category/dropout-nation-podcast/) focuses on the internal cleansing school reformers and other caring adults must do to reform American public...

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To complement this week's Dropout Nation Podcast (http://dropoutnation.net/2010/08/01/dropout-nation-podcast-questions-parent/) -- and the upcoming podcast on Sunday on more questions parents can ask to impro...

With  old-school civil rights group (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j2-ZGThPGwW5oy-V-x-Po5_VqSMgD9H71A800)s complaining (https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B36JWPh1Vfr7OTc3ZWI0NDctODVlMC00N2I2LWExNmItZmIyZGEzY2E5Yzlm&hl=en&authkey=CNG2pP4E) about President Barack Obama's emb...

(http://dropoutnation.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/dropoutnation_itunes_cover-e1263771405201.png)On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast (http://dropoutnation.net/?cat=492), I take a look at vacillations on school reform efforts by politicians such as Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (http://spectator.org...

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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...

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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...

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On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, I analyze President Barack Obama's efforts to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act and argue why neither he -- nor school reformers -- should bother with rea...