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The Dropout Nation Podcast: The High Cost of Low Expectations

On 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 strong curriculum standards) would help stem achievement gaps — including those among white children discussed in Charles Murray’s latest book — and help all kids succeed.

You can listen to the Podcast at RiShawn Biddle’s radio page or download directly to your iPod, Zune, MP3 player, smartphone, Nook Color or Kindle. Also, subscribe to the podcast series. It is also available on iTunes, Blubrry, Zune Marketplace and PodBean. Also download to your phone with BlackBerry podcast software and Google Reader.

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  1. By When Teachers Union Tactics Take on Parent Power | Dropout Nation: Coverage of the Reform of American Public Education Edited by RiShawn Biddle on February 23, 2012 at 12:58 am

    [...] proven far too willing to perpetuate failure and resist reform. As I noted in this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, it is the bigoted low expectations for poor and minority children held by so-called school leaders [...]

  2. By Voices of the Dropout Nation in Quotes: Raising the Standards | Dropout Nation: Coverage of the Reform of American Public Education Edited by RiShawn Biddle on February 24, 2012 at 10:00 am

    [...] Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Peter Meyer, explaining the importance of every child getting strong, comprehensive college-preparatory curricula, a subject of this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast. [...]