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The Dropout Nation Podcast
- The Dropout Nation Podcast: The High Cost of Low ExpectationsOn this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, Editor RiShawn Biddle takes a look at the College Board’s latest report on woeful levels of Advanced Placement course participation and explains how low expectations for children — especially for those from poor and minority households — are damaging their futures and our own. Embracing high expectations (including stro […]
- The Dropout Nation Podcast: End Educational AbuseOn this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, Editor RiShawn Biddle gives a history lesson on one of the most-atrocious episodes in American history — the federal government’s effort to use boarding schools to assimilate and abuse Native American children — and explains why we must build cultures of genius for all children. We must toss off […]
- The Dropout Nation Podcast: Rebuild American Public EducationOn this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, Editor RiShawn Biddle takes a look at recent conversations about the traditional school district and why we need to abandon the old-school approach and embrace the Hollywood Model of Education. The very assumptions — including benefits of scale — at the heart of district bureaucracies hinders much-needed efforts to [... […]