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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November 21, 2024
Episode 122 – Education at the Ballot Box: 2024 U.S. General Election Debrief
In this 2024 U.S. general election debrief, we cover potential changes to school choice, student loans, Title IX, and educational policies that could reshape learning for teachers and students...
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November 7, 2024
Episode 121 – Voices in Teaching feat. 2020 Nebraska Teacher of the Year Megan Helberg
Voices in Teaching: A Conversation with 2020 Nebraska Teacher of the Year Megan Helberg This week we are very excited to kick off a new 16:1 series called Voices...
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