How the term “busing” was used as a euphemism to mask outright racism in Boston.
About Jennifer Berkshire
As the School Spins
A Boston school turnaround spins out of control
A Boston school turnaround spins out of control.
Foundations Unfiltered
Megan Tompkins-Stange opens up on her five years conducting confidential interviews with insiders at some of the foundations most involved in education reform.
Megan Tompkins-Stange opens up on her five years conducting confidential interviews with insiders at some of the foundations most involved in education reform.
Why College Won’t Fix Poverty
Have You Heard takes its podcast to campus, talking with students who recognize what "adults" are just discovering: college is no poverty panacea.
Have You Heard takes its podcast to campus, talking with students who recognize what “adults” are just discovering: college is no poverty panacea.
Love Letter to My Dead Student
A Chicago teacher mourns a dead student, knowing he won't be the last...
A Chicago teacher mourns a dead student, knowing he won’t be the last.
Inequality Is For Winners
Jennifer Berkshire talks with Tom Frank, author of Listen, Liberal, on the Democrats' break with the working class, and why education alone can't save us.
Jennifer Berkshire talks with Tom Frank, author of Listen, Liberal, on the Democrats’ break with the working class, and why education alone can’t save us.
Holding Back to Get Ahead
Researcher Joanne Golann tells the EduShyster (Jennifer Berkshire) that no-excuses charters are teaching low-income students to defer to authority and hold back their opinions—the opposite of what they’ll need to succeed in college and life.
Is the Key to Closing the Achievement Gap Found In… Nebraska?
Jennifer Berkshire (EduShyster) talks to Education Cities’ Ethan Gray about the new Education Equality Index, and challenges him to accompany her to the #1 gap-closing city in the USA: Omaha, Nebraska. (Spoiler alert: he accepts!)
Major: Debt
Students are told from a young age that the only way to get ahead is to go to college. And that’s bad advice, says writer Neil Swidey, in an interview with Jennifer Berkshire.
The System Works*
If schools produce dramatic gains but leave students feeling scared, and scarred, are they still successful? An eighth grader poses some tough questions…
Helping Children Succeed (Will Require Doing Pretty Much the Opposite of Everything We’re Doing Now)
Following up on his New York Times bestseller, author Paul Tough talks about his new book, Helping Children Succeed, with education blogger, Jennifer Berkshire.
Sit Down and Shut Up
I went to a high-performing charter school to become a better teacher. Instead I learned how to silence and punish kids.