Cheryl Brown Henderson, Daughter of Lead Plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Ed., on Race & Schooling
This week on "The Learning Curve," Cara and Gerard are joined by Cheryl Brown Henderson, president of the Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence, and Research. She shares her experience as the daughter of the lead plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, and thoughts on how the historic decision contributed to advancing civil rights in our country.
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Harvard PEPG's Prof. Paul Peterson on Charter Schools, Digital Learning, & Ed Next Polling
This week on "The Learning Curve," Cara and Gerard are joined by Paul Peterson, the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University.
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Award-Winning Writer Brenda Wineapple on the 170th Anniv. of The Scarlet Letter & Pres. Andrew Johnson's Impeachment
This week on "The Learning Curve," Cara and Gerard are joined by Brenda Wineapple, author of the award-winning Hawthorne: A Life and The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation. They discuss her definitive biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne and the 170th anniversary of the publication of his classic novel, The Scarlet Letter.
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International Best-Seller Dr. Jung Chang On Wild Swans, Mao's Tyranny, & Modern China
This week on "The Learning Curve," Cara and Gerard are joined by Dr. Jung Chang, author of the best-selling books Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China; Mao: The Unknown Story; and Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China.
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Kelly Smith, Prenda CEO, on Microschooling & the Future of K-12 Learning
This week on "The Learning Curve," Cara and Gerard are joined by Kelly Smith, founder and CEO of Prenda, a company that helps create flexible learning environments known as microschools. Often described as the "reinvention of the one-room school house," microschools combine homeschooling, online education, smaller class sizes, mixed age-level groupings, flipped classrooms, and personalized learning.
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U-Ark Prof. Jay Greene & EdChoice's Jason Bedrick on Yeshivas vs. New York & Religious Liberty
This week on "The Learning Curve," Cara and Gerard are joined by Jay Greene, the Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, and Jason Bedrick, the Director of Policy for EdChoice. They discuss their timely new book, Religious Liberty and Education: A Case Study of Yeshivas vs. New York, about the recent battle between Orthodox Jewish private schools and New York's state government over the content of instruction.
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Michelle Rhee, Former Chancellor, D.C. Public Schools, on Leading Urban District Reform & the COVID-19 Moment
This week on "The Learning Curve," Cara and guest co-host Kerry McDonald are joined by Michelle Rhee, founder and former CEO of StudentsFirst and prior to that, former chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS).
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Award-Winning Author Devery Anderson on the 65th Anniversary of the Murder of Emmett Till
This week on "The Learning Curve," Cara and Gerard are joined by Devery Anderson, the author of Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement. Today, August 28th, marks the 65th anniversary of the brutal murder of 14-year old Emmett Till, a story which is central to understanding America's ongoing struggle for civil rights and racial justice.
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Christensen Institute's Julia Freeland Fisher on K-12 Disruptive Innovation, Professional Networks, & Social Mobility
This week on "The Learning Curve," Cara and Gerard are joined by Julia Freeland Fisher, director of education research at the Clayton Christensen Institute.
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President of D.C.'s AppleTree Institute, Jack McCarthy on Charter Schools and Fall Reopening
This week on "The Learning Curve," Cara and Gerard are joined by Jack McCarthy, president and CEO of AppleTree Institute for Education Innovation and board chair of AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School. Jack shares what animated him to establish this highly innovative early childhood charter public school network that serves the most vulnerable children in Washington, D.C.
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"Call Me Ishmael" Melville Scholar Prof. Hershel Parker on Moby-Dick & Classic Literature
This week on "The Learning Curve," Gerard and guest co-host Kerry McDonald, senior education fellow with the Foundation for Economic Education, are joined by Hershel Parker, the H. Fletcher Brown professor emeritus at the University of Delaware and the definitive biographer of the 19th-century American novelist, Herman Melville.
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NYT #1 Best-Selling Science Author, Dava Sobel on Copernicus, Galileo's Daughter, & Astronomy
This week on "The Learning Curve," Cara and Gerard are joined by Dava Sobel, a former New York Times science reporter, and author of Longitude, Galileo's Daughter, and Letters to Father. Dava describes what inspired her interest in some of the most gifted mathematicians and astronomers in history, including Copernicus and Galileo, and the tensions between religion and science.
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