Reality Check is the weekly podcast about anything and everything having to do with education.This series of lively, engaging podcasts is hosted by Jeanne Allen the Founder and CEO of the CER, where we’ve been working to expand education opportunity and innovation for a more than a quarter of a century. We chose the name Reality Check because we’ve found that a lot of what you read or see about education is often WRONG or at least, seriously misleading. In order to know what’s really going on in our elementary and secondary schools as well as in higher education, you will need a Reality Check.Read more »
Reality Check is the weekly podcast about anything and everything having to do with education.This series of lively, engaging podcasts is hosted by Jeanne Allen the Founder and CEO of the CER, where we’ve been working to expand education opportunity and innovation for a more than a quarter of a century. We chose the name Reality Check because we’ve found that a lot of what you read or see about education is often WRONG or at least, seriously misleading. In order to know what’s really going on in our elementary and secondary schools as well as in higher education, you will need a Reality Check.Read Less
This week’s guest is a rare commodity in American politics. As US Senator from Louisiana, Democrat Mary Landrieu (@SenLandrieu) often bucked conventional wisdom of her party to put children’s needs ahead of adults. She is a supporter of the DC Opportunity Scholarship program and a leading proponent in Congress of charter schools, which she sees as a “powerful tool to fix the generations-long challenge of unequal educational opportunity.” (WSJ, April 23, 2019) She pulls no punches in talking about the candidates, the president and the state of public affairs. Our last edition for the summer, this Reality Check is really hot!