Season 2, Episode 4: Should there be in-person sports when schools are remote?

10/14/20 • -1 min

Michael and Diane tackle the thorny – and often emotional – question of sports and schools in this latest episode, as well as how to think about a change GreatSchools made recently to its school rating formula to try and decouple a school’s rating from the income level and racial makeup of its students.

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Season 2, Episode 3: The Fires Burning Behind the SAT and Patriotic Education

With students and parents going to extraordinary lengths to take the SAT–and one school superintendent making a football field available so students could take the test–Diane and Michael tackle the question of how much the SAT really matters and how should parents and educators in colleges and districts frame the choice of taking the test right now. They also dive into the suggestion that President Trump made recently that there should be a 1776 Commission to create a more “patriotic education.”

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Season 2, Episode 5: The reopening question

Diane talks through the considerations and challenges in reopening schools – and what that term even means – to help all stakeholders think through the central purpose of schooling and how we might measure success in this strange school year.

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