April 17, 2025
Episode 131 – The Politics and Price of Free Speech in American Schools
Understand how recent political interventions are reshaping free speech and institutional autonomy on campuses across America.
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April 3, 2025
Episode 130 – Fit and Grit: Rethinking How Colleges Define and Pursue Excellence
Tackling outdated assumptions about merit and fit in higher education admissions with Emily Chase Coleman, co-founder and CEO of HAI Analytics.
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March 20, 2025
Episode 129 – Mass Firings & Campus Crackdowns: U.S. Academia Under Fire
This week brings a focus on U.S. academia: the sweeping restructuring of the U.S. Department of Education amid mass firings, civil rights lawsuits, and Title VI investigations; the arrests...
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March 6, 2025
Episode 128 – Degrees on Arrival: The Steamboat Ladies
The incredible story of the Steamboat Ladies, a group of 700+ women denied degrees at Oxford and Cambridge due to their gender who found a loophole at Trinity College...
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February 20, 2025
Episode 127 – Senate Bills, Data Vaults, & Climate Classes: Edu News for February 2025
New restrictions on academic freedom, climate education mandates, federal data vault initiatives, and evolving research on the impact of AI on critical thinking.
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February 6, 2025
Episode 126 – Jerome Bruner: Shaping Education Through the Cognitive Revolution
Jerome Bruner: Shaping Education Through the Cognitive Revolution Explore the life and work of Jerome Bruner, a pioneering psychologist, multidisciplinarian, and educator who transformed the study of learning. Sources...
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January 23, 2025
Episode 125 – Data Privacy, App Bans, and Keeping up with the College-Bound – Edu News for January 2025
Data Privacy, App Bans, and Keeping Up with the College-Bound – Edu News for January 2025 This week in education news headlines, we cover: Sources & Resources: Rick Singer...
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January 9, 2025
Episode 124 – Confronting Educational Censorship & Securing Academic Freedom: A Conversation with Jeremy C. Young of PEN America
A critical discussion of educational censorship and academic freedom with Jeremy C. Young of PEN America. Discover how local communities, charisma, and policy are shaping the conversation in higher...
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December 5, 2024
Episode 123 – Red Bricks, Revolution, and Renewal: Reflections from the 2024 NCTE National Conference
Red Bricks, Revolution, and Renewal: Reflections from the 2024 NCTE National Conference In our final episode of 2024, the 16:1 hosts share reflections and takeaways from the 2024 NCTE...
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