Bloomberg EDU Podcast
Bloomberg EDU is a weekly look at education in America. Host Jane Williams interviews leading educators, administrators, and policy makers.
Hosted by Jane Williams
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Eli Broad, Superintendent Grier on Broad Prize (Audio)
Sep 27, 2013
Eli Broad, philanthropist and creator of two Fortune 500 companies, discusses his native Detroit public schools, blended learning, school leadership and a national system for education. Terry Grier, superintendent of the Houston Independent School District, the winner of the 2013 Broad Prize for Urban Education, discusses improved student achievement, scholarship dollars for graduating seniors, and the need for partners in public education. They talk with Jane Williams on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg EDU." (Source: Bloomberg)
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Schnur, Paul, Kohn Discuss Measures of School Success (Audio)
Sep 20, 2013
Jon Schnur, executive chairman of America Achieves, a nonprofit incubator for educational initiatives, discusses a survey comparing U.S. high school students to their international peers, the Common Core and new census data on childhood poverty. Annie Murphy Paul, a Spencer Fellow at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and author of the forthcoming book: "Brilliant - The Science of How We Get Smarter," and Alfie Kohn, author of 12 books including "Feel Bad Education," discuss the purpose of education, measures of success in school and in life. They talk with Jane Williams on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg EDU." (Source: Bloomberg)
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Former Teachers Discuss Why They No Longer Teach (Audio)
Sep 13, 2013
Former teachers Dan Brown, director of Washington, D.C.-based Future Educators Association, George Stern, a student at Harvard Law School, and Kaycee Eckhardt, an education and literacy consultant to non-profit organizations including Student Achievement Partners, crafters of the Common Core standards, discuss their commitment to their students, their passion for public education and why they decided to leave the teaching profession. They talk with Jane Williams on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg EDU."
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Davis Guggenheim, Roundtable on Why Teachers Teach (Audio)
Sep 6, 2013
Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim discuss what it means to be an effective teacher and "TEACH," a television special that documents four teachers throughout an academic school year. On the roundtable, teachers Derek Thomas, H.B. Plant High School, Tampa, Florida, Dan Tobin, Rindge Avenue Upper School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Abby Morton-Garland, who teaches history in the morning and is an assistant principal in the afternoon at KIPP University Prep in San Antonio, discuss their classrooms, school leadership and why they teach. They talk with Jane Williams on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg EDU."
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Experts on Medical Education, Teacher Training Programs (Audio)
Aug 30, 2013
Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), discusses the advocacy organization's June 2013 "Teacher Prep Review" published by "U.S. News & World Report." Lee Shulman, professor emeritus, Stanford University School of Education and past president, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and Ron Thorpe, president and chief executive officer, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, discuss teacher training programs and "The Flexner Report," which transformed medical education 100 years ago. They talk with Jane Williams on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg EDU." This program originally aired on June 21, 2013. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Canada, Brewster, Mocha Moms Discuss American Dream (Audio)
Aug 23, 2013
Fifty years after the March on Washington, Geoffrey Canada discusses African-American males and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s unfulfilled dream. Psychiatrist, filmmaker Joe Brewster discusses black achievement and "American Promise," a documentary film he created with his partner and wife, human rights lawyer Michèle Stephenson. Mocha Moms Cheli English-Figaro and Sheila Gardner discuss the non-profit organization's "Occupy Schools" initiative to promote parent involvement and engagement in their children's education. They talk with Jane Williams on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg EDU."
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Educators Discuss How Tablets Are Changing K-12 Schools (Audio)
Aug 16, 2013
Sara Schapiro, director of the League of Innovative Schools at Washington, D.C.-based Digital Promise, Mark Sullivan, principal of Burlington High School in Massachusetts, Michael Muir, leader of Multiple Pathways for Maine's Auburn School Department and Linda Clark, superintendent of Idaho's Meridian Joint Schools District No. 2 discuss iPads and tablets in K12 education. They talk with Jane Williams on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg EDU." This program originally aired on May 17, 2013.
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Cookson on Equity, Garland and Goldstein on Segregation (Audio)
Aug 9, 2013
Peter W. Cookson, Jr., author, sociologist and a senior fellow at Education Sector, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, discusses equity issues and education inequality. Sarah Garland, a staff writer for "The Hechinger Report" and author of "Divided We Fail: The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation" and Dana Goldstein, a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation and a Puffin fellow at The Nation Institute, discuss segregation, desegregation and integration. They talk with Jane Williams on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg EDU." This program originally aired on May 10, 2013.
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Retired Army Colonel on Today’s PTA, Overdeck on Math (Audio)
Aug 2, 2013
Otha Thornton, a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and the first black male president of the National Parent Teacher Association (PTA), discusses the child advocacy organization's new initiatives, leadership and expanding membership. Author Laura Overdeck discusses overcoming math anxiety and engaging in a math-centered dialogue as part of the bedtime routine. They talk with Jane Williams on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg EDU." (Source: Bloomberg)
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Advocates on Getting Students to and Through College (Audio)
Jul 26, 2013
Anthony P. Carnevale, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, discusses the value of a college education, especially for students from low-income-families. On the roundtable, John Barker, dean of undergraduate and graduate students at Tufts University, Deborah Bial, president and founder of The Posse Foundation, and Jacques Steinberg, senior vice president of higher education at Say Yes to Education, discuss efforts to improve graduation rates through comprehensive preK-12 supports and college scholarships for youth who might not otherwise attend and complete higher education. They talk with Jane Williams on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg EDU."
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