The Education Show

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The Education Show is a news podcast hosted by Alexander Russo's The Grade, with 63 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Alexander Russo's The Grade hosts The Education Show, a news show with 63 episodes published.

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  The 30-year delusion about schools & tech

  May 27, 202645 minS0

  <p>The current backlash against school technology has many sources, including among them frustrations with remote learning during COVID, the over-use of devices and software in schools, and the recent spread of school phone bans. </p><p>But questions about computers in schools aren’t anything new. In fact, almost 30 years ago, Todd Oppenheimer wrote The Computer Delusion, a prescient cover story for what was then still called the Atlantic Monthly. Six years later, he followed up with a book on the same topic, The Flickering Mind.</p><p>In this new, totally unedited interview, Oppenheimer connects his efforts to ra...

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  Covering the edtech backlash in Lower Merion and other parts of the country

  May 20, 202638 minS0

  <p>The last time I got the chance to speak with AP data guru Sharon Lurye was a couple of years ago when she and others on the education team were finalists for a Pulitzer. </p><p>These days, Lurye is hard at work on both data-driven stories like last week’s massive piece on the Education Scorecard and field-based stories like her coverage of the debate in Lower Merion, Pa. about whether schools should roll back some of the reliance on edtech and whether parents should be able to keep their right to opt out. </p><p>In this ne...

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  Think like a newsroom & other lessons from New Haven

  May 18, 202629 minS0

  <p>If you know education journalism, you probably know about the New Haven Independent, which has a long history of publishing high-quality coverage and hiring all-star reporters like Aliyya Swaby and Christopher Peak. </p><p>Longtime Independent editor Paul Bass now runs the Online Journalism Project, which published the Independent and other publications. </p><p>In this new interview, Bass shares insights and experiences about the education beat, local coverage, and finding innovative new ways to get accurate information in front of readers who want it.</p><p>“One thing we’ve learned the last 20 years of local journalism is that...

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  How the Banner won Pulitzer recognition for 'Missing the bus'

  May 7, 202630 minS0

  <p>Earlier this week, the Banner won Pulitzer recognition for ‘Missing the bus,’ a multipart investigation into Baltimore’s particularly ineffective school transportation setup. </p><p>As the series reveals, the problem isn’t lazy kids complaining about the same challenges that have faced schools nationwide. The combination of widespread choice, lack of yellow bus service after 5th grade, and lack of vision created a singularly woeful situation comparable. For the record, The Grade picked the first story in the series as Best of the Week when it came out.</p><p>In this new interview, education editor Rachel Mull and repo...

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  How to cover ed tech hysteria

  May 6, 202629 minS0

  <p>In case you hadn’t noticed, last year’s wave of school cellphone bans has turned into a widespread reconsideration of all things related to technology. </p><p>Screen time, 1:1 devices, YouTube, social media, AI, and educational software programs like I-Ready and IXL are all getting a turn in the barrel. </p><p>“We’re at this place where parents and teachers and school leaders are all starting to say, ‘Okay, we’ve had enough digital learning,’” says The Bell Ringer’s Holly Korbey in a new interview. “‘This is too much.’”</p><p>But is the outrage warranted? How to tell what needs rol...

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