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Ep. 80 - April 12, 2017: High School History Class with Broadway’s Hamilton Apr 12, 2017

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Could Hamilton have an impact on the teaching of U.S. History in American high schools? That’s the vision behind the Hamilton Project, a major new effort to get the musical in the hands of kids, first in New York City, and eventually nationwide. Marty West talks with Wayne D’Orio, a veteran education journalist and the author of the article “Hamilton Goes to High School,” which is available at: http://educationnext.org/hamilton-goes-high-school-how-students-learn-history-from-broadway-musical-lin-manuel-miranda/

Ep. 79 - April 5, 2017: The Unintended Consequences of Lowering Class Size Apr 04, 2017

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It is hard to think of a more popular education policy proposal than reducing class size, but reducing class size on a large scale can have major unintended consequences. Marty West talks with Bryan Hassel of Public Impact. Bryan is the co-author of a recent post on the EdNext blog with the provocative title “One More Time Now: Why Lowering Class Sizes Backfires," available at http://educationnext.org/one-time-now-lowering-class-sizes-backfires/

Ep. 78 - March 29, 2017: New Role for the Office for Civil Rights? Mar 28, 2017

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Marty West talks with Shep Melnick about how the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights works and what is likely to change under the Trump administration. Shep Melnick, the Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. Professor of American Politics at Boston College, is the author of a new post on the EdNext blog entitled “How civil rights enforcement got swept into the culture wars, and what a new administration can do about it.” You can read it at http://educationnext.org/how-civil-rights-enforcement-got-swept-into-the-culture-wars-and-what-a-new-administration-can-do-about-it/

Ep. 77 - March 22, 2017: Designing a Blended-Learning School Mar 21, 2017

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What should schools look like in order to succeed with blended learning? Marty West talks with Larry Kearns about how he and his team designed two charter schools to support their blended learning models. For more, please read Kearns's article, “New Blueprints for K-12 Schools,” available at http://educationnext.org/new-blueprints-k-12-schools-innovative-design-supports-blended-learning

Ep. 76 - March 15, 2017: Should Schools Close When Snow Falls? Mar 15, 2017

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With a major winter storm closing schools up and down the East Coast this week, it seemed like a good time to revisit this 2016 discussion of snow days. In this episode, EdNext's Marty West talks with Josh Goodman, the author of “In Defense of Snow Days,” about research showing that declaring a snow day is better for students in the long run. "In Defense of Snow Days" is available at http://educationnext.org/defense-snow-days/

Ep. 75 - March 8, 2017: Rebooting Professional Development Mar 08, 2017

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Can professional development for teachers be personalized? Michael Horn joins EdNext editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss a new way of doing professional development. Teachers identify the skills they want to acquire, receive specialized training, and are certified as having these new competencies, receiving a micro-credential, something akin to a merit badge. For more, read "Competency-Based Learning for Teachers," by Michael Horn and Thomas Arnett, here: http://educationnext.org/competency-based-learning-teachers-micro-credentials-professional-development/

Ep. 74 - March 1, 2017: What Could We Expect on Ed From a Justice Gorsuch? Feb 28, 2017

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Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick has been poring over Neil Gorsuch’s opinions as a federal judge to learn how he might approach the steady stream of education cases that inevitably make their way before the Supreme Court Bolick has a new Education Next article on this topic, available here: http://educationnext.org/gorsuch-the-judicious-judge-supreme-court-education/

Ep. 73 - Feb. 22, 2017: ESSA: What You Need to Know Feb 22, 2017

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The Every Student Succeeds Act, the federal education law passed in 2015, is part of what would seem to be a dying breed: major pieces of domestic policy legislation passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. How did ESSA come to be? And what does it mean for American students? In this episode of the podcast, Marty West is joined by Rick Hess, co-author of a new book, The Every Student Succeeds Act: What It Means for Schools, Systems, and States. An excerpt from the book, “The Long Path to ESSA,” is now available at http://educationnext.org/the-long-path-to-essa-every-student-succeeds-act-book-excerpt-hess-eden/

Ep. 72 - Feb. 15, 2017: Will Students with Disabilities Receive Meaningful Benefits? Feb 15, 2017

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On January 11, 2017 the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the most important special education case in thirty-five years, Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District. At issue was the level of services federal law requires school districts to provide students with disabilities. On this week's episode of the podcast, Marty West talks with Josh Dunn about the case. His new article on the Endrew F. case is available at http://educationnext.org/special-education-standards-supreme-court-raises-level-benefit-endrew-f-v-douglas-county/

Ep. 71 - Feb. 8, 2017: Fixing Math Remediation Feb 07, 2017

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More than half of college freshmen are told they must take remedial classes, most often in math, and these remedial math classes have low pass rates. Do these classes accomplish anything? A new study finds that allowing students to take a college-level statistics class instead of remedial algebra has long-term benefits, starting with higher student pass rates. Alexandra W. Logue, a research professor at CUNY’s Center for Advanced Study in Education, joins EdNext Editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss the study. The study is available at: http://educationnext.org/reforming-remediation-college-students-mainstreamed-success-cuny

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