Sparking Equity
Sparking Equity brings to you the most creative thinking and best strategies for ensuring that all students succeed, with a focus on low-income students and students of color.
Join hosts Pedro Noguera and Lande Ajose as they explore key issues such as restoring arts and music education in schools, how to engage parents in their children’s education in a positive way, coping with mental health challenges on college campuses, and what's next on the student loan relief battleground. Executive producer and correspondent for Sparking Equity is veteran education journalist Louis Freedberg, director of the Advancing Education Success Initiative.
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Episodes
16 episodes
Beyond Fear: Leading Schools in an Era of Immigration Threats
School districts around the nation are struggling to fend off threats from the Trump administration on multiple fronts. In addition to trying to protect students whose families may face a threat of deportation, they also face a looming Ap...
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35:01
Trump Ratchets Up Assault on Higher Ed
Higher education in America stands at a critical juncture as unprecedented political attacks threaten to erode academic freedom, and upend longstanding relationships between the federal government and both private and public colleges and univer...
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28:29
Navigating Trump's Higher Ed Shakeup
What could be the impact of a torrent of Trump Administration initiatives targeting higher education, and how should education leaders and students respond? In this episode, we focus on the potential fallout of dismantling the the U...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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From Boredom to Engagement: Why the Credit Hour Must Be Reformed
Even as public schools enter a period of extreme uncertainty, there are exciting developments underway to rethink the school day and to develop new ways to measure what students are learning.Listening to a stimulating conversation about ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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29:50
Reimagining the School Day: Learning Outside the Classroom
Listen to this important discussion on rethinking the basic structure of the school day to enhance learning and make schools more rewarding for students whose learning styles don't necessarily match the century-old division of learning in...
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24:21
What Higher Education Must Do To Take on Climate Change
In this episode of Sparking Equity, host Lande Ajose explores the critical role higher education can play in addressing the climate crisis while advancing equity. Joined by Eloy Ortiz Oakley, President and CEO of the College Futures Foundation,...
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28:12
Are Big Changes in Store for Education After Trump Victory?
The November 5th elections are expected to have an impact on almost every aspect of government and public policy, including education. In this episode, hosts Pedro Noguera and Louis Freedberg take a deeper dive into what promises Presiden...
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28:07
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 electio...
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24:32
How Compton is Putting Students on Path to Prized STEM Careers
One of the most formidable challenges in education is how to reverse the disproportionately low representation of Black and Latino students in STEM courses and careers. Remarkably, Compton Unified in Los Angeles County, a ...
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22:22
Challenging Stereotypes, Compton Schools Defy the Odds
Ben Herald, a former reporter at Education Week, set out across America to document what is happening in school districts located in once largely white suburban communities. His book
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20:53
How One School District Is Making Equity Work
In many school districts around the country, just the term "equity" can arouse passion and conflict. Too often there is a mistaken belief is that achieving equity for all kids means some kids have to give up something so that others can b...
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21:46
What is Education Equity?
What is Education Equity? In this episode of "Sparking Equity," host Pedro Noguera talks with his son Joaquín Noguera to demystify a term that has become hugely, and unnecessarily, controversial in numerous school districts t...
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18:12
Confronting the College Mental Health Challenge
One positive development that emerged from the pandemic is that it focused attention on the mental health challenges many students face -- and how these are a major determinant of college success.There is also greater awareness that low-...
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30:07
Beyond Conflict: Engaging Parents in Schools
In this episode of "Sparking Equity, " host Pedro Noguera, dean of the USC Rossier School of Education, focuses on attacks on schools around issues such as mask mandates and critical race theory -- and how parents and caregivers can be invol...
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Facing the Crisis of College Affordability
Last June, the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to the hopes of tens of millions of students and former students hoping to have their college loans cancelled or reduced when the court rejected President Biden’s debt relief program. In th...
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29:49
Why Arts and Music Must Be Restored to the School Curriculum
Over many decades, the school curriculum has been whittled down to focus on core academic subjects, often at the expense of arts and music education. The shift has been most pronounced in schools serving low-income students and st...
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