Breaking the Public Schools / Jennifer Berkshire

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🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Returning to the show for the third time, Jennifer C. Berkshire wrote the American Prospect article, "Breaking the Public Schools: Red states are enacting universal education vouchers, threatening budget calamity and potentially degrading student achievement." Jennifer is the host of the education podcast 'Have You Heard' and the author, with another past guest Jack Schneider, of "The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual." "Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview. Check out Jennifer's article here: https://prospect.org/education/2024-10-11-breaking-public-schools/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0	And I'm You're going to be. Take it down.
0:23.0	down.
0:25.0	Take it down. This This is hell.
0:45.0	I just had a completely unexpected sneeze.
0:50.0	I just had a completely unexpected sneeze.
0:52.0	Maybe there might be another. Who knows, Chris, what was the... I just had a completely unexpected sneeze.
0:52.5	Maybe there might be another.
0:53.5	Who knows?
0:54.5	Chris, what was the ambient music that you were playing before the show started?
0:58.0	When we were making dinner yesterday, well, my non-wife
1:02.0	I put on a group called Cloud Rush.
1:04.4	I get this is called the song's called Two and a Four.
1:06.8	So I like to have Zen mornings sometimes.
1:09.5	Yeah, I kind of like that.
1:10.4	I don't want to rage out every single morning.
1:12.8	Not every single.
1:13.8	Five out of seven, maybe.
1:16.4	Manufacturing dissent since 1996.
1:18.8	This is hell and sadly, an increasingly dissenting opinion in the United States is that a quality free public elementary and secondary education
1:30.7	should be universally accessible to every citizen or resident.
1:35.0	That's right, free public school may soon go the way of the Buffalo with few left in whatever schools remain being viewed by onlookers
1:48.9	as something majestic from a nostalgic past that now only exists in our hazy and very faded memories.
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