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Download and podcast this program here: Audioport Internet Archive In this week’s program, we take a closer look at how high stakes testing is impacting what happens in classrooms, how teachers see students, how students see themselves, and the kinds of society we are building through how young people are being educated. The impact of high stakes tests is both broadly social and intimately personal. Socially, high stakes testing re-segregates our schools, marginalizes black and brown children, young people who live in poverty and children who do not learn in traditional ways. High stakes testing tells us who we will value, and who we will not value, and makes room for us to criminalize youth, especially black and brown youth, opening the path to the school to prison pipeline. It operates within and builds on white supremacy, and exploits long standing privileges and oppressions. And, as with any dominant discourse, high stakes testing enters our consciousness and begins to structure ...

Download mp3s of this program here: Audioport Internet Archive In today’s program we discuss curriculum politics in the public school system, and the role they play in establishing a biased and oppressive curriculum that silences lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people throughout history and today.  We talk with students, educators, and activists who are committed to furthering social justice for the LGBTQ community, and have participated in the movement towards an LGBTQ inclusive curriculum. We also explore ways in which LGBTQ inclusion can be successful, as with the FAIR Education Act, and one example of a high school LGBTQ literature course that is central to the curriculum and highly enrolled. Through these interviews we see just how powerful an LGBTQ curriculum can be for individual students, but also for the kinds of communities we create when we know our histories, learn from our struggles and come to understand the fluidity and inter-sectionality of our identities. E...

Tania Kappner You can download mp3's of the program here:   Audioport (mp3) Internet Archive This is part two of a two part expose. Click here to listen to part one, The Sham of Teach for America In this second of our two-part exploration of Teach for America, we'll explore TFA's larger goals and connection to corporate education reform. In doing so, we examine TFA's impact on professional teachers and their unions, and their hijacking of a social justice discourse in an effort to manufacture public acquiescence to the imposition of an agenda that ultimately seeks to further consolidate knowledge, wealth and power for a few at the expense of the many. Karen Lewis Diane Ravitch We continue our conversations with many of the people we spoke with in Part One of our program - people who have researched and experienced Teach for America - including Barbara Veltri , Assistant Professor of Education at Northern Arizona State university, TFA corps member mentor, ...

Neha Singhal You can download mp3's of the program here: Audioport (mp3) Internet Archive This is part one of a two part expose. Click here to listen to part two, The Ongoing Sham of Teach for America In this week's show, Education Radio continues to disrupt the dominant narrative of corporate education reform by investigating the organization Teach for America (TFA). TFA is one of many insidious examples of how the language of social justice and equity is hijacked and appropriated, and instead employed to further the goals of the neoliberal education reform agenda. This agenda includes a firm belief that education should primarily serve the interests of private profit and as with all neoliberal education reformers, TFA is actively intensifying racial and class inequality, and the destruction of education as an essential public good along with the continued decimation of unions - two institutions that are primary determinants of a democratic society. Wendy Kopp In th...

You can download mp3's of the program here: Audioport   (podcast) Internet Archive In the first segment of this week's show, we feature a keynote talk given by Kevin Kumashiro, at the 3rd annual   NYCoRE   Conference. The conference was titled "Education is a Right! Not Just for the Rich or White!" and took place in New York City during March 2012. Kevin Kumashiro In his talk, Kumashiro examines various problems within current education reform policies a s w ell as four ways we can push back against education reform and reimagine change in public education.   Kumashiro is a professor of Asian American Studies and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the current president-elect of the National Association for Multicultural Education. His most recent book is titled   Bad Teacher: How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture. William Watkins In the second segment, Education Radio producers Barbara Madeloni, Dani O'Brian and Tim Scott speak wit...