As you read today’s New York Daily News piece by Dropout Nation Editor RiShawn Biddle and Why Boys Fail author Richard Whitmire on why the rhetoric over the supposed “war on women” obscures the real crisis among young men, listen to this Dropout Nation Podcast from last May on the impact of the nation’s education crisis on our sons and nephews. We need to continue overhauling American public education and provide strong role models in order for keep our boys on the path to graduation and economic success.

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, Google Reader, BeyondPod, DoggCatcher and other mobile software.

A new Dropout Nation Podcast will be broadcast this Wednesday.

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On this week’s Monitor, RiShawn Biddle takes a look at the Schott Foundation’s latest report on educational opportunities for poor and minority kids; observes the debate in Alabama over allowing charter schools; and considers the raging argument in New York State over releasing teacher performance data.

Watch the Midweek Monitor on the site or download. You can also subscribe to this series and to the overall Dropout Nation Podcast series. It is also available on iTunes, Blubrry, Zune Marketplace and PodBean. Also download to your phone with BlackBerry podcast software, Google Reader, BeyondPod, DoggCatcher and other mobile software.

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On this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle takes a look at the progress of American history from 1890 to today, and explains why overhauling public education is critical to keeping it going. In an increasingly global and knowledge-based economy and society, high-quality education is critical to sustaining the nation’s place as the superpower and help all children emerge from poverty into the middle class.

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 and PodBean. Also download to your phone with BlackBerry podcast software, Google Reader, BeyondPod, DoggCatcher and other mobile software.

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On this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle takes a look at the nation’s special education ghettos and explains how they exacerbate the nation’s education crisis. Contrary to what House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline thinks, no more money is needed for programs that serves as way-stations for young men and minority children American public education considers unteachable.

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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On this month’s Conversation, Editor RiShawn Biddle chats with Connecticut Parents Union President Gwen Samuel and mothers running the Hartford Parents Organization about their efforts to champion school choice and teacher quality reforms in one of Dropout Nation‘s States to Watch. They discuss their recent protest efforts in the districts of state legislators who, at the behest of National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers affiliates, have all but eviscerated Gov. Dan Malloy’s school reform plans.

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 Conversation podcast series and the overall Dropout Nation 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.

Disclosure: Dropout Nation Editor RiShawn Biddle is a member of the Connecticut Parents Union’s advisory board.

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On this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle discusses the need for Beltway school reformers and education traditionalists to embrace a more-expansive view of school choice and Parent Power. Families need the power to transform schools in their own communities — as well as the ability to escape failure mills — in order to shape education for the children they love.

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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