New Frontiers for Education Reform?

Let's Find Common Ground

USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

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🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

CPF Director Bob Shrum joins education experts, Pedro Noguera, Macke Raymond, and Dr. Darline Robles, for a conversation on education reform and policy. They discuss the politics of public education, the role of parental rights, why some public schools are failing, what makes some charter schools successful when others struggle, whether or not taxpayer funds should be used to provide vouchers to parents who send students to private schools or home school, and which educational reforms should be supported, studied, or rejected. In partnership with USC Rossier School of Education, USC Price Center for Inclusive Democracy, USC Political Union (a Bridge USA chapter), and USC Political Student Assembly.

Featuring:

Pedro Noguera: Dean, USC Rossier School of Education
Margaret “Macke” Raymond: Director, Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University
Dr. Darline P. Robles: Professor of Clinical Education, USC Rossier School of Education; USC Associate Dean for Equity and Community Engagement; Former Superintendent, Los Angeles County Office of Education
Bob Shrum: Director, Center for the Political Future; Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics, USC Dornsife

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Bully Pulpit from the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future.
0:11.8	Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot button issues where we respect
0:22.0	each other and respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:29.3	I'm Bob Shrum, the director of the Center for the Political Future here at USC Dornsife.
0:34.5	I want to welcome all of you who are with us and those who are with us virtually on
0:39.8	Zoom or Facebook Live for what I hope will be an enlightening discussion on the future of education
0:45.7	in America. A special thanks to Jeff and Susan White, whose support made this event possible
0:51.2	and made it possible for us to put together a terrific panel.
0:55.7	Mackie Raymond is the founder and director of the Center for Research on Education Outcomes
1:00.9	at Stanford University, a position she has held since CRETO was founded in 1999. Before joining
1:07.7	Stanford, she was on the faculty of both the political science and economics departments at the University of Rochester, and her winters were a lot colder.
1:17.4	Dr. Darlene Robles is currently Associate Dean for Equity and Community Engagement and a professor of clinical education at the USC Rossier School of Education.
1:28.3	She teaches in the Educational Leadership Program and is a faculty advisor for professional development.
1:34.3	Pedro Negara is a leading scholar on race, inequality, and education.
1:39.3	He serves as the Emory Stoops and Joyce King Stoops, Dean of the Rozier School, and has been on the faculty at UCLA, NYU, where we were both on the faculty at the same time, Harvard and UC Berkeley.
1:52.2	He also served on President Biden's Advisory Commission on advancing educational equity, excellence, and economic opportunity for Hispanics.
2:00.5	I will lead a discussion with the panel
2:02.8	for about 40 minutes and then turn to audience questions. So I'm going to throw out a general
2:07.8	question first, and we can just go down the row. How would you assess the state of K through 12 education
2:14.4	in the United States? What grade would you give our public education system?
2:18.7	Mackie?
2:20.1	So I would say we probably deserve about a C-minus on average,
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