The Report Card with Nat Malkus
AEI Podcasts
The Report Card with Nat Malkus is the education podcast of the American Enterprise Institute. It is a hub for discussing innovative work to improve education – from early childhood to higher education – and the lives of America’s children. It evaluates research, policy, and practice efforts to improve the lives of families, schools and students. The Report Card seeks to engage with everyone who is interested in education in an accessible way. It brings guests that are doing compelling work across a spectrum from high level policy changes to innovations at the classroom level, work that will start conversations about improving education and the lives of children more broadly. Each episode lets listeners – policymakers, teachers, and parents –learn relevant information that they can use in their efforts to improve education.
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Jul 9, 2020 • 44min
The Knowledge Gap [Rebroadcast]
When remote learning started up this spring, a number of school districts initially forbade teachers from introducing new content in an effort to prevent achievement gaps from widening. Instead of teaching new knowledge, teachers were told to focus on maintaining previously learned skills. In subjects like reading, this focus on skills over content has long been the […]
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Jun 25, 2020 • 41min
Hybrid homeschooling (with Mike McShane)
Over the past few months, nearly every student in America has gotten a taste of what home-based learning has to offer. As many families have discovered, homeschooling has its ups and downs. On the plus-side, it can allow parents to spend more time with their children, more deeply engage in their children’s schooling, and craft […]
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Jun 11, 2020 • 36min
Degrees of freedom (with Seth Andrew)
In the world of higher education research, “success” is usually defined as a function of two statistics: enrollment and completion. Going by those two checkpoints, students experience very different chances of success based on their backgrounds and family characteristics. Consider, for example, that students who come from families in the top 20 percent of earners […]
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May 28, 2020 • 49min
The shifting politics of charter schooling
For years, the charter school sector enjoyed bipartisan support, counting among its advocates Presidents Clinton and Obama, as well as Presidents Bush and Trump. Yet, in 2020, nearly all democratic presidential candidates advertised their opposition to charters and many called for a moratorium on their expansion. Republicans, by some folks’ estimations, also appear to be less enthusiastic […]
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May 18, 2020 • 29min
What will it take to get back to school? (with Rick Hess and Candice McQueen)
To say that the coronavirus pandemic is one of the most significant disruptions our education system has ever faced is hardly an understatement. Back in March, without a warning, 50 million students were shut out of school buildings and asked to engage in new modes of learning. Now, with less than a month left of […]
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Apr 20, 2020 • 28min
Leadership in the coronavirus pandemic, with Governor Jeb Bush
Gov. Jeb Bush joins to discuss the immense leadership challenges COVID-19 has brought to bear against all leaders, from the White House to the schoolhouse.
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Apr 8, 2020 • 30min
Teacher leadership amid coronavirus
In mere weeks, coronavirus toppled a long-standing pillar of our education system: students receiving in-person instruction from teachers. In the face of this turbulent change, teachers around the country have stepped up to help their students — and their colleagues — adapt to these constraints. Today, Nat talks with three teacher-leaders who are forging a […]
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Apr 3, 2020 • 38min
Teaching amid the coronavirus pandemic
Among those whose work has been most impacted by the coronavirus pandemic are teachers. In the course of just a few weeks, nearly all of the nation’s 3.6 million elementary and secondary school teachers have had to reorient their carefully crafted lesson plans for distance learning. What’s more, many of them have had mere days […]
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Mar 28, 2020 • 36min
Superintendents and coronavirus (with Josh Starr and Duncan Klussmann)
With America's education system upended, school districts are faced with complex concerns. Nat talks with two superintendents about how to confront them.
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Mar 24, 2020 • 27min
Coronavirus and school closures (with John Bailey)
COVID-19 has upended America's school system in unprecedented ways. AEI Fellow John Bailey joins to provide insight from his 2005 work combatting influenza
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