School's In

What is the role of schools in fostering civic engagement in a democratic society? And how do teachers navigate this role, especially when it comes to controversial topics? On this episode of School’s In , political science Professor Rob Reich joins hosts Dan and Denise to discuss schools’ and teachers’ role in encouraging civic participation in its many forms. They touch on how teachers can serve...

Guest speaker Maya Rossin-Slater—an assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research—discusses the long-term mental health impacts on survivors of fatal mass shootings.

Amado Padilla, a professor of education at Stanford GSE, explains the challenges of helping kids who live in trailer parks to thrive and compete academically with their peers who come from wealthier communities.

Anthony Antonio - associate professor of education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education - discusses how friendships and relational networks matter for academic and social success in college.

Michael Hines - an assistant professor in the School of Education - discusses the value of teaching cultural history classes in the twentieth century.

Laura Wentworth, the Stanford-SFUSD Partnership Director for the Stanford Center to Support Excellence in Teaching (CSET), discusses the value and challenges of conducting research in a public school setting.

Guest speaker Jennifer Langer-Osuna discusses guiding students to a healthy math identity through relationships with peers and teachers.

Guest speaker Professor Francis Pearman explains the impacts of pre-k studies on 3rd-grade achievement in low-income environments.

Can educator's restorative practices reduce student suspensions in public schools? Peter Williamson - an Associate Professor (Teaching) of Education at Stanford University and Faculty Director of the Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP) for Secondary Teachers - discusses the question with our hosts.

Eric Burmeister - Menlo Park, CA, Superintendent of Schools - talks about his top priorities as a change maker in raising student achievement levels through innovation and strategic leadership.

Hosts Dan Schwartz and Denise Pope have a discussion with John Willinsky, examining the feasibility of publishing cooperatives that bring together libraries, journals, scholarly societies, and other institutions as a financially sustainable open access model for peer-reviewed scholarly publishing.

Do brain-training exercises really work to strengthen memory and learning as we get older? Guest Laura Carstensen, Director of the Stanford Center on Longevity and Stanford professor of Public Policy, weighs in on the conversation.

Patricia Bromley, an assistant professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, discusses how textbooks incorporate attitudes and ways of looking at the world.

Ramón Martínez, an assistant professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, discusses how early exposure to multiple languages and code switching can enhance children’s communication skills, even when children are effectively monolingual.

Tomás Jiménez, an associate professor of sociology and comparative studies in race and ethnicity at Stanford University, discusses how immigrants choose to move to certain areas based on the school system and how those immigrant communities change the schools themselves.

Jonathan Osborne, a professor of science education, emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, talks about teaching science in K-12 schools. As an author of the Next Generation Science Standards, he is responsible for many of the changes in how kids learn science today.

Thomas Ehrlich, an adjunct professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, discusses the history of how student activism has led to social change.

Rebecca Silverman, an associate professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, explains what the reading wars are and provides advice on teaching children how to read.

Dennis Wall, an associate professor of pediatrics, psychiatry, and biomedical data sciences at the Stanford School of Medicine, talks about understanding different levels of autism in kids, and how to diagnose and treat them.

U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, '89, discusses how she became interested in politics, what it was like to teach high school chemistry and how to help develop educational leaders. This episode of School's In was recorded live in front of an audience of Stanford alumni and friends in Washington, D.C. as part of the Stanford Graduate School of Education's Improving Lives Through Learning tour.

Stanford Graduate School of Education Dean Dan Schwartz talks with co-host Denise Pope about the role of artificial intelligence in our everyday lives and its impact on child learning and education.

Rafael Pelayo is a clinical professor and sleep specialist at the Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine. On this episode of School's In, he discusses why sleep is so important and what it does for the brain.

Jonathan Rosa is a linguistic anthropologist and an assistant professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He discusses how language and race intersect, and how teachers can approach these language differences in the classroom.

Kathryn Moeller is a visiting assistant professor at the Lemann Center at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. She is the author of the 2018 book, "The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of Development." She discusses the global effort to educate girls and women and how empowerment programs are sometimes based on questionable evidence.

Elizabeth Kozleski is the dean’s senior scholar for teaching and learning at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. On this episode, she discusses inclusiveness, learning differences and how children are tracked into special education classrooms.