School Reform News Podcast
By Heartland Institute
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Empowering parents to improve schools.
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Katrina Currie: Fracking Legislation in Pennsylvania | Katrina Currie, policy analyst with the Commonwealth Foundation, explains the impact of recently passed fracking legislation in Pennsylvania. | 2/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lance Izumi: Obama's Education Takeover | President Obama has laid the groundwork for an unprecedented centralization of education policy under the guise of promoting educ read more | 2/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Leon Kass: American Citizenship and President's Day | Love and knowledge of one's country is essential to developing educated citizens and ensuring the United States' survival, says Leon Kass. read more | 2/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthony Esolen: How to Destroy a Child's Imagination | With wickedly funny, deeply poignant prose, Providence College Professor Anthony Esolen's read more | 2/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mike Ford: Structuring Teacher Pay in Gov. Walker's Wisconsin | Many states are implementing merit pay and value-added assessments for teachers, but Mike Ford of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute says they'd do better to follow a different approac read more | 1/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Vicki Alger: Valuing and Evaluating Teachers | Researchers are just now quantifying what we've known for ages: great teachers are supremely important to students' intellect, earnings, and character. read more | 1/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ben Wildavsky: For-Profit Higher Education | The current media and government scrutiny of for-profit higher education's weaknesses often ignores the potential for these institutions to innovate beyond their current startup stages, says Ben Wi read more | 1/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Allison Hertog: Scandals with Public Money | A Florida vouchers program for disabled students is under fire for instances of fraud and abuse. read more | 1/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Patricia Siroky: A Mom Speaks Out About Vouchers | Patricia Siroky's 12-year-old daughter was failing core classes, acting out to her parents and teachers, and calling herself "stupid" while attending her local public schools. read more | 12/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr. Gene Edward Veith: The Importance of Family, Culture, and Vocation to Education | Dr. read more | 12/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jonathan Butcher: Scholarship Tax Credits | Americans are the most generous givers in the developed world, and research has shown the more a person believes in private enterprise and personal freedom the more likely that person is to give mo read more | 12/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bryan Caplan: The Case Against Education | Author and economics professor Bryan Caplan joins the School Reform News Podcast to make | 11/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Andrew Biggs: Are Public School Teachers Overpaid? | A | 11/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr. Lew Andrews: Creating Community Dialogue with Local Schools | A Connecticut taxpayer group has just released the first-ever independent survey of local high school graduates, read more | 11/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Obama’s Executive Order - Real Relief for Student Loans? | Annie Hsiao of the American Action Forum joins the podcast to analyze and discuss President Obama’s executive order restructuring the federal student loan program. read more | 11/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Matthew Brouillette: PA Senate Approves Vouchers | The Pennsylvania legislature has been considering voucher legislation on and off for about 15 years. This year, the charge has started again, with some help from Gov. Tom Corbett (R). read more | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chester Finn Jr: Eliminate School Districts? | Chester Finn Jr. read more | 10/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Neal McCluskey: America's 'Morbidly Obese' K-12 System | President Obama is stumping for his new jobs bill--but can it coax America's economy back to life? read more | 10/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peg Tyre: Finding The Good School in an Era of Choice | As school choice increases, many parents find themselves overwhelmed at the amount of jargon and programs available. read more | 9/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bruce Cooper: Religious Charter Schools? | A growing number of publicly-funded charter schools have attempted to divine the line between church and state as they offer Jewish, Muslim, Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, animist, and other relig read more | 9/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lindsey Burke: No Child Left Behind | SRN PODCAST - More than a decade after the No Child left Behind Act was originally passed, the House of Representatives just took the first steps to reauthorize it. read more | 9/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ben DeGrow: Colorado Vouchers Lawsuit Gets Private Funding | SRN PODCAST - The school district that created its own voucher program using a charter school to administrate state funds has rec read more | 9/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Whitney Downs: Business and Education: Where the Two Sectors Meet, and Sometimes Collide | SRN PODCAST - Business involvement in education does not always go well, but has great potential to help schools tackle the budget and career-ready challenges hitting them today, says Whitn read more | 8/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anne Neal: Ending the College Free-for-All | SRN PODCAST - The cost of attending college has increased 440 percent in the past 25 years, says Anne Neal, president of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, largely because colleges and un read more | 8/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Richard Komer: Vouchers and Legal Challenges | SRN PODCAST - Richard Komer, an attorney at the Institute for Justice, joins the SRN podcast to discuss two completely different outcomes on preliminary injunctions requested against voucher progra read more | 8/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Herb Walberg: How States and Districts Can Innovate During Budget Crises | SRN PODCAST - Herb Walberg, distinguished visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution, joins Managing Editor Joy Pullmann to outli read more | 8/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Greg Forster: Command and Control Education Reform | SRN PODCAST - Reformers take many approaches, says Greg Forster of the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, and among the read more | 8/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Naomi Schaefer Riley : Is It Time to End Professor Tenure? | SRN PODCAST - Author Naomi Schaefer Riley thinks universities should stop giving professors tenure, and makes her case to Managing Editor Joy Pullmann. read more | 7/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lewis Andrews:Apathetic Suburban Parents | SRN PODCAST - Dr. Jay Greene joins Joy Pullmann to discuss his new book, Why America Needs School Choice. read more | 7/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr. Jay Greene: The American Education System | SRN PODCAST -Dr. Jay Greene joins Joy Pullmann to discuss his new book, Why America Needs School Choice. read more | 7/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christian Schneider: Milwaukee Vouchers | SRN PODCAST - Christian Schneider, a senior fellow with the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, comes aboard to talk Wisconsin's crazy politics of late and its influence on the Milwaukee vouchers read more | 6/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Naheed Bleecker: Parenting and Education | SRN PODCAST - Naheed Bleecker, a self-described libertarian "tiger mom" from Wisconsin, comes aboard to discuss parenting with high expectations for kids, how sacrifice makes families care more abo read more | 6/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bill Evers: Closing the Door on Innovation | SRN PODCAST - Bill Evers, Research Fellow at the Hoover Institute discusses the anti-manifesto: "Closing the Door on Innovation" with School Reform News Managing editor Joy Pullman. | 6/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brian Bosma: School Reform in Indiana | SRN PODCAST - Indiana Speaker of the House Brian Bosma speaks with School Reform News Managing Editor Joy Pullman about School Reform in Indiana. | 5/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joy Pullmann: The Future of School Reform News | SRN PODCAST - Former School Reform News Managing Editor Ben Boychuk introduces the new managing editor, Joy Pullmann | 5/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Advances in Online Learning | SRN PODCAST - Susan Patrick, president and CEO of iNACOL, talks about policy challenges and innovations in online K-12 education with School Reform News Managing Editor Ben Boychuk.Susan Patrick, p read more | 5/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stray Dogs, Saints, and Saviors | SRN PODCAST - Author Alexander Russo discusses how Green Dot Charter Schools took over and struggled to turn around Los Angeles' Locke High School with School Reform News Managing Editor Ben Boychu read more | 4/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From School Choice to Educational Choice | SRN PODCAST - Olivia Meeks of the American Enterprise Institute discusses "a more promising vision for 21st-century, choice-centered reform" with School Reform News Managing Editor Ben Boychuk. | 4/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Advances and Retreats in D.C. | SRN PODCAST -Heritage Foundation education policy analyst Lindsey Burke discusses the D.C. read more | 4/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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"School Choice Win-Win" | SRN PODCAST - Foundation for Educational Choice Senior Fellow Greg Forster discusses his new study, a round-up of empirical research on school voucher programs across the United States, with School read more | 3/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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"Parent Trigger" | Paul Comrie-Thomson of Australia National Radio's "Counterpoint" program discusses parent empowerment in the United States with School Reform News Managing Editor Ben Boychuk. | 3/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Teachers Unions as the Ultimate "Special Interest" | Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Terry M. Moe discusses his new book with School Reform News Managing Editor Ben Boychuk. | 3/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Texas Parent Trigger | Bob Schoolfield of Texans for Parental Choice in Education discusses the prospects of the Lone Star State adopting parent empowerment legislation with School Reform News Managing Editor Ben Boychuk read more | 3/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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"The Bee Eater"" | Richard Whitmire discusses his new book about former DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee with School Reform News Managing Editor Ben Boychuk. | 2/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Parent Trigger "Cleanup" | Ben Boychuk,,"School Reform News Managing Editor Ben Boychuk discusses the California State Board of Education's decision to put off draft permanent regulations governing the state's landmark paren read more | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is a College Diploma Really Necessary? | School Reform News Managing Editor Ben Boychuk discusses the economic implications of President Obama's higher education proposals with economist and Heartland policy advisor Richard Vedder. | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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School Choice in the Keystone State? | Commonwealth Foundation President Matthew Brouillette discusses plans for a voucher program in Pennsylvania and opposition from the state school boards association with School Reform News Managing read more | 1/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Barriers to Distance Learning | Lance Izumi, Senior Director of Education Studies at the Pacific Research Institute in California, discusses regulatory barriers to distance learning with School Reform News Managing Editor Ben Boy read more | 1/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Could the Parent Trigger be Locked? | School Reform News Managing Editor Ben Boychuk discusses the recent upheaval at the California State Board of Education with former State Sen. read more | 1/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Education Reform in Florida | Patricia Levesque, executive director of the Foundation for Florida's Future, discusses education reform in the Sunshine State with School Reform News Managing Editor Ben Boychuk. | 1/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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LibertyForKids.com | School Reform News Managing Editor Ben Boychuk discusses LibertyForKids.com, a new web resource for teachers and kids, with Rachel Davison, editor in chief of the site and a new contributor to SRN. read more | 12/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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School Reform in South Carolina | Randy Page of South Carolinians for Responsible Government joins School Reform News Managing Editor Ben Boychuk to discuss the election of Mick Zais and the prospects for school reform in the Palme read more | 12/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Saving Schools | School Reform News Managing Editor Ben Boychuk discusses "Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning" with author Paul Peterson. First of two parts. | 11/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Waiting for Superman | School Reform News Managing Editor Ben Boychuk discusses the movie Waiting for Superman with Bruno Behrend, The Heartland Institute's Director of the Center for School Reform. | 11/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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After Michelle Rhee | read more | 10/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Do Civics Teachers Know? | read more | 10/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Parent Trigger II | read more | 9/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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School Choice in Review | read more | 9/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Whatever Happened to Walking to School? | read more | 9/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Parent Trigger | read more | 9/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rand Paul on federal meddling in education | read more | 8/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ben Boychuk on the Drew Mariani Show | read more | 8/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christian Legal Society v. Martinez: An interview with Greg Lukianoff | read more | 8/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Common Core Calamity in California: An interview with the Hoover Institution's Bill Evers | read more | 7/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bruno Behrend: The prospects for school choice in Illinois | read more | 7/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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After the Hurricane: An Interview with Lisa Snell of Reason Foundation | read more | 7/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Blob vs. Reform: An Interview with Greg Forster | read more | 7/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Common Core Standards: An interview with Lindsey Burke of The Heritage Foundation | read more | 6/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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School Choice and Latinos: An interview with Don Soifer of the Lexington Institute | read more | 6/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A School Reform Model in Sweden? An interview with Lance Izumi of the Pacific Research Institute | read more | 6/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ben Boychuk and Bruno Behrend Discuss School Finance in California | read more | 5/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reinvigorating Civics: An interview with Peter Schramm of the Ashbrook Center | read more | 5/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tenure Reform in Colorado: Interview with Ben DeGrow | read more | 5/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Interview with Bruno Behrend of The Heartland Institute | read more | 5/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Interview with Lisa Snell of the Reason Foundation | read more | 4/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Interview with Neal McCluskey of the Cato Institute | School Reform News Managing Editor Ben Boychuk interviews the Cato Institute's Neal McCluskey about national education standards, tenure reform, and the $23 billion federal education "bailout." | 4/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Interview with Bob Bowdon, Director, The Cartel | SRN Managing Editor Ben Boychuk interviews Bob Bowdon, director of The Cartel, a documentary about the special interests standing in the way of school reform. | 4/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Interview with Dan Proft: School Vouchers Coming to Chicago? | Ben Boychuk, managing editor of School Reform News, and Illinois Republican Dan Proft discuss Illinois Senate Bill 2494, which would establish a pilot voucher program for Chicago. read more | 4/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 78 Episodes |
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