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A report on just how far educators will go to avoid being held accountable and a candid interview with NYC School Chancellor Joel Klein. Primary Format : News Language : English Also Listed as: City : New York State/Province : NY Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of John Merrow Podcast Podcasts Methings.com listings of John Merrow Podcast Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of John Merrow Podcast Three Quarters of the Way to the Moon-Education Podcast with John Merrow #77 Though the federal law known as No Child Left Behind requires annual testing in reading and math, states develop their own tests and decide where to set the bar. Conservative education guru Chester Finn discusses these and other loopholes in No Child Left Behind ­ and tells us why it’s politically impossible to suggest a goal less than 100%.AUDIODuration: 15:39 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Game Changer-Education Podcast with John Merrow #78 Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings responds to John Merrow’s questions about loopholes in the federal law known as No Child Left Behind. Is the law truly holding states accountable for educating all children?AUDIODuration: 14:26 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radical Reform in San Diego-Education Podcast with John Merrow #79 San Diego's Keiller Middle School re-invented itself as a charter school, and for the first time in ears, students are meeting the requirements of No Child Left Behind. So why, asks Executive Director Patricia Ladd, is the local school system treating it like an adversary?AUDIODuration: 19:19 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Political Will to Change-Education Podcast with John Merrow #80 During Alan Bersin’s 7-year tenure as San Diego’s Superintendent of Schools he often found himself at the center of the controversy. Hear this nationally-known educational reformer share some of the lessons he learned fighting to improve failing schools.AUDIODuration: 21:30 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website We Needed Something Radical-Education Podcast with John Merrow #81 Michelle Evans was appalled by the conditions at her son’s middle school – and so she changed them. Using a provision of No Child Left Behind, Evans lead the fight to convert Gompers Middle School to a charter school. Hear Evans, who many call a hero, describe the struggle and success of the effort.AUDIODuration: 13:19 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Young and In Charge-Education Podcast with John Merrow #83 Washington, DC’s new and inexperienced superintendent, 37-year-old Michelle Rhee, discusses her plans to reshape the school district’s traditionally unresponsive central office and boost student achievement.AUDIODuration: 15:26 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Recovery School District: A New Beginning?-Education Podcast with John Merrow #84 Amanda Sias, Kady Amundson and Jason Denlinger—three teachers at Rabouin High School, one of New Orleans’ lowest performing schools designated to the Recovery School District—debate whether their new, optimistic Superintendent, Paul Vallas, can turn around a district plagued by historical failure and poverty.  AUDIODuration: 21:22 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Honoring the Reality-Education Podcast with John Merrow #82 Anthony Cody is a National Board Certified Teacher with 18 years of classroom experience under his belt. But Anthony Cody is no longer teaching--he left the profession several years after the No Child Left Behind was passed. In this podcast, hear Cody explain why left, why it’s difficult for teachers to criticize the law, and why NCLB doesn’t “honor the reality” of urban education.  AUDIODuration: 20:17 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Right Answer-Education Podcast with John Merrow #85 The Federal Law known as No Child Left Behind tests reading and math each year in grades three through eight. But is the testing helping kids learn how to apply knowledge in the real world? Lynn Riggs, a science teacher in Fairfax County, Virginia, worries that students are learning how to give the right answers – at the cost of learning how to ask the right questions.  AUDIODuration: 16:55 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teachers at the Table-Education Podcast with John Merrow #86 Every Spring, the state teachers of the year travel to Washington to meet the President. But this year, they planned an event of their own – 50 of the state teachers of the year held a press conference calling for 10 major changes to the Federal law known as No Child Left Behind. Hear Maddie Fennell, the 2007 Nebraska Teacher of the Year, discuss how the law looks differently in Washington than it does in her Omaha classroom.  AUDIODuration: 11:47 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One Little Snapshot-Education Podcast with John Merrow #87 5th grade teacher Betsy Walter sees her students making progress – but often, tests required by the federal law known as No Child Left Behind tell a different story. Walter, who once worked for Senator Kennedy, a sponsor of the law, discusses how NCLB evaluates her students. AUDIODuration: 12:29 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Daily, Weekly, Monthly-Education Podcast with John Merrow #88 The Federal law known as No Child Left Behind has generated a massive amount of testing data. But is the data useful in the classroom? Jay McClain, principal at Bailey’s Elementary School in Fairfax County, VA, discuss how NCLB impacts his job. AUDIODuration: 11:14 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Union Leader on the Hot Seat-Education Podcast with John Merrow #89 George Parker, the president of the teachers’ union in Washington D.C., is now negotiating a new contract with School Chancellor Michelle Rhee. Rhee wants to make it easier to fire ineffective teachers, but Parker says she already has enough power.  In this audio podcast, hear how Parker balances the need for educational reform with his duty to protect workers’ rights.AUDIODuration: 12:14 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bold Initiatives in New Olreans-Education Podcast with John Merrow #90 If you were put in charge of one of the worst school districts in the country would you give high school students free laptops? Well, that’s exactly what Paul Vallas has done. Now several months into his superintendency of the Recovery School District in New Orleans, Vallas is betting on some bold initiatives to turn the system around and improve education for students. Hear Vallas talk about trying to upend old ways of doing business and set about changing how students learn.AUDIODura ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Everybody's Doing It-Education Podcast with John Merrow #91 College sports conjure up conflicting images from academics to athletics scandals. Our newest documentary, Big Time Losers, examines the contradictions of this multi-million dollar industry. In this podcast, Lute Olson--interviewed in the film--talks about the educational aspects of college sports and why basketball and football in particular are critical to the university and all other college sports.AUDIODuration: 20:11 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Push Them to a Cliff-Education Podcast with John Merrow #92 How do the best superintendents of the nation deal with the everyday challenges of running school districts? How do they negotiate the obstacles and develop innovative solutions to ensure that education remains a priority? Last September Rudy Crew, superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, and Joel Klein, chancellor of the New York City Board of Education, debated these issues. The panel was held in Washington, DC, before the Broad Foundation Urban Education Award Ceremony.AUDI ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Community Engagement and Public School Reform-Education Podcast with John Merrow #93 Parent advocate Margot Berkey is thrilled about the prospect of lasting school reform in Washington, DC. But can such reform take place without community input? In this podcast, Berkey discusses the ramifications of what she sees as a lack of transparency on the part of DC schools leaders.AUDIODuration: 10:03 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sometimes One Brick at a Time Isn't Fast Enough-Education Podcast with John Merrow #94 New Orleans’ new Superintendent of Schools, Paul Vallas, has received national attention for his sweeping initiatives – free laptop computers for every high school student, an extended school day, a special school for overage underachievers. So how does his boss, the State Superintendent of Schools, Paul Pastorek, judge Vallas’ progress? We caught up with Pastorek at the ceremonial demolition of one of the city’s storm ravaged school buildings to talk about school reconstruction, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Cost of War-Education Podcast with John Merrow #95 How do we reward our veterans for putting their lives on the line? Most soldiers say they want an education, but the current benefits offered through the GI BIll are inadequate to say the least. According to Virginia Senator Jim Webb, a former marine and Vietnam vet, it's a problematic cost of war: “We’re spending $8.2 billion this year on educational grants for people in this country, based purely on need, not for affirmative service of any kind. So this is a cost of war.”AUDIODur ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DC Mayor Weighs In-Education Podcast with John Merrow #96 Mayor Adrian Fenty and Chancellor Rhee are moving quickly to make big changes in DC’s failing schools. But their controversial proposal to fire central office employees and close 23 schools has left some feeling that that they are moving too fast. In this podcast, Mayor Fenty gives Chancellor Rhee an A+ on performance and discusses their plan to close schools.AUDIODuration: 8:10 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website