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On this rebroadcast of a Dropout Nation Podcast from 2012, RiShawn Biddle calls upon reformers to remember the need to build brighter futures for all kids – and take the…

On this rebroadcast of a Dropout Nation Podcast from 2012, RiShawn Biddle calls upon reformers to remember the need to build brighter futures for all kids – and take the time in the new year to advance systemic reform.

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The Conversation: Dr. Steve Perry on Charters, Choice and Integration

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December 4, 2017 3:30 pm December 4, 2017

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On this special edition of The Conversation, Dr. Steve Perry blasts the Associated Press’ sloppy report on charter schools, explaining the difference between minority families choosing schools and forced segregation…

On this special edition of The Conversation, Dr. Steve Perry blasts the Associated Press’ sloppy repor t on charter schools, explaining the difference between minority families choosing schools and forced segregation by traditional districts and states.

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The Conversation: Teach For America’s Elisa Villanueva Beard

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December 4, 2017 8:25 am December 4, 2017

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On this edition of The Conversation, RiShawn Biddle chats with Teach For America CEO Elisa Villanueva Beard about the teacher quality reform outfit’s more-pronounced efforts on addressing equity, criticism from…

On this edition of The Conversation, RiShawn Biddle chats with Teach For America CEO Elisa Villanueva Beard about the teacher quality reform outfit’s more-pronounced efforts on addressing equity, criticism from reformers who prefer it to focus solely on teacher quality, and the organization’s moves to bolster and diversify recruiting.

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Dropout Nation Podcast On the Road

Tackling School Discipline

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November 20, 2017 4:00 pm November 20, 2017

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On this episode of On the Road from May 2016, RiShawn Biddle joins Steven Evangelista of Harlem Link Charter School, Shawn Hardnett of NewSchools Venture Fund, University of Pennsylvania’s Matthew Steinberg,…

On this episode of On the Road from May 2016, RiShawn Biddle joins Steven Evangelista of Harlem Link Charter School, Shawn Hardnett of NewSchools Venture Fund, University of Pennsylvania’s Matthew Steinberg, and Mastery Charter School’s Scott Gordon in a discussion at NewSchools’ annual conference on the overuse of out-of-school suspensions and other harsh school discipline.

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The Integration Question

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November 18, 2017 8:44 pm November 18, 2017

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On this edition of On the Road broadcast from Live Together, Learn Together’s conference in Washington, D.C., RiShawn Biddle joins with Bowie State University education scholar Treopia Green Washington, the…

On this edition of On the Road broadcast from Live Together, Learn Together’s conference in Washington, D.C., RiShawn Biddle joins with Bowie State University education scholar Treopia Green Washington, the Century Foundation’s Richard Kahlenberg and Laura Wilson Phelan of Kindred to discuss where do we go on integration seven decades after Brown v. Board of Education and the Little Rock Nine.

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On the Road

Organizing to Do Better for Children

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October 11, 2017 1:06 pm October 11, 2017

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In this edition of On the Road from 2016, Editor RiShawn Biddle joins with Deray McKesson, Parent Power activist Milagros Barsallo, now-Baltimore City Councilman Zeke Berzoff-Cohen, and Jonathan Mansoori of…

In this edition of On the Road from 2016, Editor RiShawn Biddle joins with Deray McKesson, Parent Power activist Milagros Barsallo, now-Baltimore City Councilman Zeke Berzoff-Cohen, and Jonathan Mansoori of Leadership for Educational Equity in a Teach For America discussion on how reformers can use movement organizing to transform the schools and communities in which our children live.

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