Education on the Line
Education on the Line is a podcast focusing on the mounting financial, political, legal and ideological threats to public education -- and strategies to help education leaders and decisionmakers cope with them.
Previously titled "Sparking Equity," the podcast will address the the negative views of public schools espoused by President Trump and others. Public schools are portrayed as failures not deserving federal support, as institutions whose principal activity consists of indoctrinating students in gender and other ideologies, while teaching students negative versions of American history, and making them feel
We will interview school leaders, elected officials including school board members about how they are coping with the current perilous education landscape -- while staying focused on educating all students and ensuring that they succeed.
Join media innovator and veteran education journalist Louis Freedberg as he interviews Executive producer and correspondent for Sparking Equity is veteran education journalist Louis Freedberg, director of the Advancing Education Success Initiative. The advisor for the podcast is Pedro Noguera, Dean of the USC Rossier School of Education.
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Education on the Line
Rethinking Civics Education
The youngest voters in the U.S. have historically turned out in lower numbers than any other age group. And unfortunately analyses of the Nov. 5 elections suggest that they turned out in lower numbers than in the 2020 elections.
One reason that many educators point to i that traditional civics and American government classes typically fail to engage young people in the democratic process. That is especially the case for students of color and low-income students.
However, exciting new approaches to civics education are emerging. One of them is "action civics," where students take the lead in organizing and implementing projects in their own communities as part of a civics curriculum.
In this episode our host Pedro Noguera, Dean of the USC Rossier School of Education, with Louis Freedberg, Interim CEO of EdSource, interview Rob Filback and Jen Crawford, founders of USC's Democracy Project about these and other promising approaches. Also on the podcast is Robert Medrano, a project director at Teach Democracy who has taught social studies for years.
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Brought to you by the Advancing Education Success Initiative -- Coby McDonald, Producer; Louis Freedberg, Executive Producer and Correspondent
