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The Dropout Nation Podcast
- The Dropout Nation Podcast: Be Fire Walkers for Our ChildrenOn this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle calls out talk of “reform fatigue”, declaring that we must embrace the fire of the challenges to systemic reform, and stay energized to help all of our children get the high-quality education they need and deserve. Reformers must walk through the fire of opposition to systemic reform […]
- Best of the Dropout Nation Podcast: Time to Reveal Good and Bad TeachersAs Dropout Nation’s writers enjoys Spring Fever, listen to this Dropout Nation Podcast from November 2011 in which Editor RiShawn Biddle challenges the view of the Los Angeles Unified School District, teachers’ unions, and school reformers who oppose revealing the names — and performance — of high-quality and laggard teachers. Presenting good-to-great teache […]
- The Dropout Nation Podcast: Abandon Busted Teachers’ PensionsOn this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle looks the nation’s insolvent defined-benefit pensions at the heart of traditional teacher compensation, and reveals the extent to which they are underfunded. Reformers must end the actuarial tricks — often encouraged for decades by states, districts and affiliates of the National Education Association and […]