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
The ever entertaining Michael Musante joins Jeanne as her new co-host in this special edition of Reality Check, talking to and about those who help children succeed in public charter schools, innovative institutions that will be maligned and misrepresented this weekend in Pittsburgh, when MSNBC airs the union-organized candidate forum on public education (https://on.msnbc.com/2PDr6wF). Hear veteran charter school educator Melanie Ward from Propel Schools (@PropelSchools), Brian Smith (@smith_brian_d), founder of Catalyst Charter School and David Hardy (@davidphardy)of Boys Latin & Excellent Schools PA ponder why any politician - existing or aspiring - would want to deny parents the power to make choices.