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The Juvenile Justice System - A Dangerous Web
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - July 31, 2014 00:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe juvenile justice and criminal justice systems ensnare far too many black and brown boys and men. Increasingly, women are caught in this dangerous web too. On this episode of Know-It-All, we are exploring the contours of some of the barriers to mental health and developmental wellness for comm...
Tackling Mental Health - The Need for School Counselors
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - July 24, 2014 00:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThere is much discussion about the role that mental health issues have played in schools and communities that have been impacted by recent college campus shootings and other school shootings. On this week's Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education, join us for an informative conversation with George W...
The Crusader Against Gun Violence
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - July 10, 2014 00:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEighty-two people were shot in Chicago over the July 4th weekend. Fourteen of those people died. Most of the victims were Black and Latino men. Dr. Roger A. Mitchell has made it his personal crusade to put an end to the senseless violence that consumes far too many sons and brothers, daughters a...
Nutrition and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - June 19, 2014 00:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAttention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a puzzle. While the number of people diagnosed with ADHD is on the rise, there is still debate about whether ADHD is a real disorder, and debate about whether people, children especially, with ADHD should be prescribed medication to treat their s...
Growing Ph.D.s in Our Own Backyard
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - May 29, 2014 00:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingResearch has demonstrated that diversity among academic researchers, who typically have Ph.D.s, is much needed in order to ensure success and progress in the scholarship they produce. Recent collaborations between academic researchers and practitioners have brought that need to bear. Dr. Shiree...
Do Poor Kids Deserve Lower-Quality Education?
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - May 15, 2014 00:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAs we approach the 60th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, an important new study reveals a separate and unequal system of education in this country. This new research indicates that the proliferation of charter schools is not benefiting our nation's most vulnerable children...
Is Parental Involvement Overrated?
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - May 08, 2014 00:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn a groundbreaking new study - The Broken Compass: Parental Involvement with Children's Education, Dr. Angel Harris and Dr. Keith Robinson have discovered that parental involvement, at least the way it is currently envisioned, doesn't quite work the way we think it does to ensure students' acade...
How to Talk to Kids about Sex
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - May 01, 2014 00:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFor parents and educators, talking with children about sex can be awkward and uncomfortable. Especially today when so much of the wrong information is readily accessible to kids, talking to them about sex has never been more critical. My guest, Deborah Roffman, is a human sexuality expert and th...
School Turnaround for Children in Poverty
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - April 24, 2014 00:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHigh-poverty schools require considerable resources and deliberate action to adequately support children and families, to address the institutional barriers to opportunity children face, and to ensure students' academic and life success. While the challenges are many, there is a blueprint for wha...
Educating Incarcerated Youth
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - April 10, 2014 02:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEnsuring access to educational opportunity for children who are incarcerated is critical to ensuring their life success. Successfully delivering high-quality academic programming to students in juvenile detention facilities while also supporting their social and emotional needs is incredibly impo...
Montessori Mindset - Letting Kids Lead
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - March 27, 2014 00:30 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMaria Montessori believed in children's instinctual ability to teach themselves. My guest, Dr. Jessica Phillips-Silver, shares that belief. Dr. Phillips-Silver is a neuroscientist and expert on healthy brain development in children. She has also studied Montessori education extensively. On this...
The Gender Dynamics of My Brother's Keeper
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - March 20, 2014 00:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingKimberlé Crenshaw is the creator of, and the nation's pre-eminent legal scholar on, Critical Race Theory. As co-founder of the African American Policy Forum, she also has focused national attention on the role of gender in the struggle for racial justice. On this episode of Know-It-All: The ABCs...
Replay - Superintendents' Roundtable
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - January 21, 2014 15:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOn today's episode of Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education, we are replaying one of our most popular shows - The Superintendents' Roundtable. Superintendents all over the country are under mounting pressure to ensure high academic achievement for their students, provide safe and nurturing school e...
Discipline Guidance - U.S. Department of Justice and Youth Advocates
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - January 14, 2014 15:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOn January 8, the United States Department of Justice and Department of Education announced the release of the first-ever joint guidance on student discipline. The guidance provides information to schools and school districts about their obligations under the law to eliminate and prevent racial d...
Scholarships as a Tool for Equity
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - January 07, 2014 15:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCollege tuition and associated costs are rising, making it more and more difficult for students to enroll in college and stay there through graduation. On this episode, my guests and I will talk about scholarships - traditional and not - as tools for educational equity. Nkechi Taifa is the found...
Let's Hear It For the Teachers
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - December 31, 2013 15:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTeachers are the life force of any education system, which makes them easy targets. 2013 has been quite a year for teachers - from standardized testing protests to teacher evaluation showdowns and more. This week's guest is Elizabeth Davis, an educator with 41 years experience as a classroom te...
Giving Back the Racial Bribe - replay
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - December 24, 2013 15:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt's our one-year anniversary! Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education is turning one. For this very special episode of Know-It-All, we are giving back the racial bribe, as Michelle Alexander implored us to do in The New Jim Crow, and as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was in the process of doing before ...
Resistance and Protest in Education
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - December 17, 2013 15:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingProtest and resistance have been grassroots tools that communities use to create systemic change. Today, protests in education are demanding common-sense approaches to education and education reform. Students, parents and families, teachers are banding together in cities across the country in pro...
The Boy Crisis and the Myth of Male Power
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - December 10, 2013 15:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBoys are in a state of crisis. At least, that's what my guest, Dr. Warren Farrell, argues. And his argument is compelling. Sixty percent of first-year college students are women. Boys are more likely to be suspended from school or labeled ADHD than their female counterparts. Dr. Farrell joins us ...
Overcoming the Racial Bribe to Address Poverty
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - November 26, 2013 15:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt's our one-year anniversary! Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education is turning one. For this very special episode of Know-It-All, we are giving back the racial bribe, as Michelle Alexander implored us to do in The New Jim Crow, and as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was in the process of doing before ...
Hip Hop and Education with Lak Henderson
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - November 19, 2013 15:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHip-hop music is ubiquitous. While it has been many things to many people over the years, it has consistently been a vehicle of artistic expression for people who otherwise might not have had such a prominent platform. Hip hop is poetry, music, sociology, even macroeconomics. It can be a viable e...
The Future of the Arts & Society - Art Basel
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - November 12, 2013 15:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingArts instruction in school has taken a back seat to standardized tests, STEM programs, and a focus on college and career readiness. Yet there is a consistently vocal public lament over the loss of the arts in school. Many people know intuitively that this is devastating to our children and to our...
The President's Call for Technology in Education
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - October 29, 2013 14:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPresident Obama visited Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) last week to discuss his administration's education agenda. He called for high-quality pre-school for every 4-year-old in the country, access to high-speed Internet for all students, lower college costs, and school...
Lawyers Roundtable - Education and Civil Rights
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - October 22, 2013 14:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI have invited some of my lawyer friends to Know-It-All to talk about the law and education and the work they do every day to ensure that children all over this nation receive a quality education. We'll talk about the school-to-prison pipeline, access to advanced courses, special education, char...
Poverty and Education - Replay
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - October 15, 2013 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhy is it important to talk about poverty in education? How do we do that in a way that is respectful and meaningful? Many times, discussions about education reform intentionally conflate race and class. There are a few reasons for this, including that the federal courts have slowly closed the...
Carol Dweck - The Growth Mindset
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - October 08, 2013 14:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWell-intentioned parents, coaches, and educators do their best to encourage children to succeed. When that encouragement emanates from a fixed mindset, however, rather than a growth mindset, it can be detrimental. Dr. Carol S. Dweck is the author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Her re...
The State of Education for Native American Students
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - October 01, 2013 14:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Education Trust recently released a new report, "The State of Education for Native Students." This report found that while achievement gaps for students of color are slowly closing, academic achievement for American Indian and Alaska Native students has stagnated, contributing to widening ga...
A New Parent Engagement Model
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - September 24, 2013 14:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAllison Brown Consulting (ABC) and the Interactivity Foundation (IF) have partnered to create a new method of engaging school and district community members. This ABC-IF discussion and engagement model brings together parents, administrators, teachers, staff, and other community members with a tr...
American Promise - Where Opportunity & Success Should Meet
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - September 17, 2013 14:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAmerican Promise is a documentary that has generated incredible buzz and won critical acclaim. Husband and wife filmmakers, Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster, will join us to discuss this important work. In the film, the exclusive and private Dalton School in NYC has recently committed to open...
Through the Voices of Students
Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education - September 10, 2013 14:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThrough the voices of students, we will explore current issues in education and education reform. From learning outside the classroom to the school-to-prison pipeline to students' recommendations for what to do better in education, we'll touch on all of it. You'll also hear more about the new d...
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