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Apr 2023
1h 45m

Teach the Children Well w/ Jennifer Berk...

Daniel Denvir
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Featuring Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider on the politics of public education. The authors of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Education and the Future of School and co-hosts of the education policy podcast Have You Heard discuss everything from charters and vouchers to teacher social movement unionism and the right-wing cultural wars against “woke” educators.

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