The Dropout Nation Podcast

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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...

As you wind down from the Thanksgiving weekend, listen to this Dropout Nation Podcast (../?cat=492), on the need to get poor-performing teachers out of classrooms. The damage wrecked by ineffective teaching -- and the culture of mediocrity they foster -- is promoted and sustained by schools of ed...

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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...

For those who read the New York Times report (http://www.nytimes.com/pages/education/index.html) on the use of Facebook by students to praise their teachers -- or Bijan Sabat's own thoughts (http://bijansabet.com/post/810489728/teacher-reviews) on the matter -- listen to this Dropout Nation Podca...

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For those further interested in learning how to solve America's reading crisis -- especially among young boys -- that I discussed earlier this week in The American Spectator, listen to one of Dropout Nation's...

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On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast (http://dropoutnation.net/?cat=492), I profile Harlem Link Charter School (http://www.harlemlink.org/) co-founder Steven Evangelista (http://www.harlemlink.org/bo...

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On this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast (../?cat=492), I discuss how poor-performing teachers damage the educational destinies of students, bring down the morale of their colleagues and foster the nat...

(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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Amid the battles over tenure reform in Florida (http://spectator.org/archives/2010/04/15/charlies-teachable-moment), D.C. (http://dropoutnation.net/2010/04/07/slow-clap-teacher-quality-reform/) and el...

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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...