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The Dropout Nation Podcast
- The Dropout Nation Podcast: Be Fathers for School ReformOn this Father’s Day edition of the Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle discusses how fathers and even men who don’t have children of their own can help transform American public education for our children. It will take Fathers and Iron Men — along with mothers and everyone else — to advance systemic reform so our […]
- The Dropout Nation Podcast: Beyond High SchoolOn this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle looks at the good news coming out of Education Week’s Diplomas Count report — and explains why improving graduation rates isn’t enough. In an age in which having some form of higher education is critical to economic and social success for kids and the communities in which […]
- The Dropout Nation Podcast: Emigrating Toward Systemic ReformOn this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle explains why school reform and immigration reform are critical to helping all children succeed. Nativists opposed to more-expansive immigration wrongly blame America’s economic, fiscal, and social ills on undocumented and legal émigrés when they should focus instead on the consequences of the nation’s edu […]