On today’s episode of Hear Me Out: sharpen up.
Public schooling in this country has had a lot of champions — including some that you might not expect. But did we ever actually agree on what we wanted schools to do for society?
Elizabeth Newcamp of Slate’s Care & Feeding joins us to argue for a reappraisal of the whole system… and what it means to educate.
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Podcast production by Maura Currie.
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Hear Me Out: Schools Do Too Much (Often Badly) | Slate Debates podcast - Listen or read transcript on Metacast
