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The Dropout Nation Podcast: Take It Higher

August 15, 2010 Building A Culture of Genius, Dropout Nation Podcast, This is Dropout Nation No Comments

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This week’s Dropout Nation Podcast focuses on the internal cleansing school reformers and other caring adults must do to reform American public education. Far too many within traditional public education are either defending the status quo of systemic academic failure, anti-intellectualism, obsolete organizational structures and poor practices that perpetuate a dropout crisis in which 150 teens every hour drop out into poverty and prison. Strong action in reforming public education — including calling out those defenders — is key to improving and elevating education for our children.

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The Dropout Nation Podcast: Get Rid of Poor-Performing Teachers (and the System that Protects Them)

May 16, 2010 Dropout Nation Podcast, This is Dropout Nation, Urban Decay, teacher quality 3 Comments

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On this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, I discuss how poor-performing teachers damage the educational destinies of students, bring down the morale of their colleagues and foster the nation’s dropout crisis. The damage wrecked by ineffective teaching — and the culture of mediocrity they foster — is promoted and sustained by schools of education, collective bargaining agreements, state laws and cultures within districts.

You can listen to the Podcast at RiShawn Biddle’s radio page or download directly to your iPod, MP3 player or smartphone. Also, subscribe to the podcast series. It is also available on iTunes, Blubrry, Podcast Alley, the Education Podcast Network and Zune Marketplace.

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    On this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, I explain why one must stop thinking about big cities as being the only epicenters of the dropout crisis and the nation’s crisis of low educational achievement. While Detroit and other major urban areas are often associated with systemic academic failure, small cities such as Hammond, Ind., and Alexandria, […]
  • The Dropout Nation Podcast: Save Young Men
    On this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, I take a look at the Schott Foundation’s report on black males and offer reminders that the achievement gap is not just one of race. All males, especially black and white males, are failing badly, with major consequences for America’s economy and society. It will take the reform of […]
  • Rewind: The Dropout Nation Podcast: Iron Forges Iron
    As you continue flipping through the Schott Foundation’s new report on the low graduation rates of black males (and the educational crisis threatening the futures of our young black men), listen to this rebroadcast of April’s Dropout Nation Podcast on what black men must do to help their sons and the younger men around them. […]

Recent Comments:

  • Steve Peha: Dear Pinetree, You're absolutely right: most people would argue that teachers have to grade papers. But research and common sense suggest otherwise...
  • Pinetree: Many would argue that English teachers do have to grade papers, Steve. So we have a long way to go before we agree on what competence looks like. I'...
  • RiShawn Biddle: Actually, Tom, I didn't imply anything. Let's re-read the paragraph: "All high schools seem alike until one looks at such numbers as test score gro...
  • Steve Peha: Tom, You ask a very direct question, so I'll give you a direct answer: It depends on how you define the gap and how you define competence. Perso...
  • Tom Hoffman: Could I have some examples of schools that closed the achievement gap through simple competence?...
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