The Dropout Nation Podcast
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Time for Suburban School Reform
On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle looks at the testing opt-out efforts and explains how they represent the need for reformers to confront the mediocrity and failure of suburban districts.
Affirm the Genius of Our Children
On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle explains why we must continually affirm the genius of all of our children and provide them the nurturing, knowledge, and affirmations they need for lifelong success. -
Build on the Power of School Choice
On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle looks at data from Stanford University's CREDO on urban charter schools, and explains why school choice is necessary for helping kids and communities succeed. -
Abandon Education’s Failed Legacies
On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle takes aim at reformers who defend practices such as overuse of harsh school discipline and restrictions on school choice, as well as remind the movement of why these failed approaches in American pu...
Who Should Use the Big Data?
On this edition of On the Road, RiShawn Biddle joins Noodle and Princeton Review founder John Katzman and Jessica Reid Sliwerski of Lightsail Education for a debate on an emerging issue in education: Who should get use of -- and access to -- formative ...
A More Perfect Movement
On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle considers Education Next's myopic misstep on addressing single-parents and education, then explains why the school reform movement must embrace racial, gender, ideological, and social diversity. -
Expand Social Networks for School Reform
On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle looks at the collapse of Achievement First's deal with New Haven's school district, along with pieces by Reiham Salam and Andrew P. Kelly of the American Enterprise Institute,
Build Up Our Black Sons
On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle reads through the Schott Foundation for Public Education's latest report and explains why we must overhaul public education on behalf of young black men. -
Revolutionary Love for Our Children
On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast (http://dropoutnation.net/category/dropout-nation-podcast/), RiShawn Biddle considers the words of four contemporary champions for our children and discusses why systemic reform of public education as well as communit
Sandy Kress on No Child
On this Conversation at Dropout Nation, RiShawn Biddle talks to No Child Left Behind Act mastermind Sandy Kress about the prospects of the law's reauthorization, why so few talk about its success in helping kids, and accountability as a conservative value