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The Dropout Nation Podcast: Challenge Illiteracy

On this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle looks at the school reform lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union’s Michigan affiliate, and explains why we must take on the illiteracy that is the key symptom of the education crisis. It is a social imperative, economic necessity, and moral commandment to ensure that all children are proficient in reading so they can successfully choose their own paths in life.

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 Fire. Also, subscribe to the podcast series. It is also available on iTunes, Blubrry, Zune Marketplace, Stitcher (for those of us using our Androids and iPhones), and PodBean. Also download to your phone with BlackBerry podcast software, Google Reader, BeyondPod, DoggCatcher and other mobile software.

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  1. By Kevin Carey Gets It Wrong on No Child | Dropout Nation: Coverage of the Reform of American Public Education Edited by RiShawn Biddle on July 17, 2012 at 2:30 pm

    [...] at the heart of the nation’s overall education crisis (the subject of this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast). Data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress tells a different story. Between 2003 [...]

  2. By Why Choice and Parent Power Matter: The Case of D.C.'s Special Ed Ghettos | Dropout Nation: Coverage of the Reform of American Public Education Edited by RiShawn Biddle on July 18, 2012 at 5:39 pm

    [...] best-known authorities on gifted and talented education, most of these kids wind up in despair, illiterate, innumerate, and ill-prepared for the adult world. And this includes those very few children who are truly in need of special ed [...]

  3. By Voices of the Dropout Nation in Quotes: Why Education Equals Social Mobility | Dropout Nation: Coverage of the Reform of American Public Education Edited by RiShawn Biddle on July 20, 2012 at 12:01 am

    [...] education are at the heart of growing economic inequality, an aspect covered in this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast on combating [...]

  4. By Best of Dropout Nation: Economic Changes Show Why We Need College Preparatory Education | Dropout Nation: Coverage of the Reform of American Public Education Edited by RiShawn Biddle on July 20, 2012 at 9:24 am

    [...] they fail to deal with the reality that the nation’s education crisis — including its failures to help kids become literate — is at the heart of the growing social and economic [...]

  5. By Why Middle Class (and Poor) Families in Suburbia Deserve Real School Choice | Dropout Nation: Coverage of the Reform of American Public Education Edited by RiShawn Biddle on July 22, 2012 at 7:07 am

    [...] isn’t the only example of mediocrity. Twenty-eight percent of suburban fourth-graders were functionally illiterate in 2011, no better than the levels four years ago; this compares poorly to the one- and two-point [...]