On 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 in order to help our children and their families avoid the economic and social abyss.

You can listen to the Podcast at RiShawn Biddle Radio or download directly to your mobile or desktop device. Also, subscribe to the podcast series, and embed this podcast on your site. It is also available on iTunes, Blubrry, Zune Marketplace, Stitcher, and PodBean.

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As 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 teachers (and poor-performing counterparts) to the public will provide information that helps families, the teaching profession, and, most importantly, all of our children.

You can listen to the Podcast at RiShawn Biddle’s radio page or download directly to your mobile or desktop device. Also, subscribe to the podcast series, and embed this podcast on your site. It is also available on iTunes, Blubrry, Zune Marketplace, Stitcher, and PodBean. A new podcast will be be broadcast on Saturday.

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On 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 American Federation of Teachers — that understate the real cost of pensions, as well as advance the overhaul of teacher compensation altogether.

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, and embed this podcast on your site. It is also available on iTunes, Blubrry, Zune Marketplace, Stitcher, and PodBean. Also download to your phone with other mobile software.

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While Dropout Nation‘s editors and contributors recover from various travel this past weekend, listen to this rebroadcast of a Dropout Nation Podcast from December 2011 in which Editor RiShawn Biddle discusses the importance of embracing the legendary James Brown’s Black Power mantra in advancing school reform. It is critical to strongly challenge the thinking of education traditionalists such as Diane Ravitch and Randi Weingarten — and do so without apology.

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, and embed this podcast on your site. It is also available on iTunes, Blubrry, Zune Marketplace, Stitcher, and PodBean. Also download to your phone with other mobile software. A new podcast will broadcast on Sunday.

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On this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle looks at the Boston Marathon Bombings, the murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell, and the slaying of one-year-old Byreon Hunter, and explains what we must do to fight against cultures of death that consumes the lives and futures of our children, physically and spiritually. Transforming American public education, whose crisis can often condemn our children to the economic, social, and emotional abyss, is part of the betterment of society that is key to helping our children 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 Fire. Also, subscribe to the podcast series, and embed this podcast on your site. It is also available on iTunes, Blubrry, Zune Marketplace, Stitcher, and PodBean. Also download to your phone with other mobile software.

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On this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle looks back at the evangelical efforts of William Wilberforce and others to end the slave trade, and explains why and how school reformers should embrace their example. It is as critical for reformer to strongly, smartly, and tactically make the moral and intellectual case for transforming American public education as Wilberforce did for ending slavery more than two centuries ago.

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, and embed this podcast on your site. It is also available on iTunes, Blubrry, Zune Marketplace, Stitcher, and PodBean. Also download to your phone with other mobile software.

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