Roland Fryer on Educational Reform

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🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

The good news about educational reform, says Harvard economist Roland Fryer, is that we know what it takes to turn a school around. The bad news is that it's hard work--and implementing it won't win you any popularity contests. Listen as the MacArthur Genius Award Winner and John Bates Clark medalist speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how pizza parties revealed the potential of incentives to improve students' test scores, and why he's far more concerned about closing the racial achievement gap than keeping the love of learning pure. He also discusses the five best practices of successful schools, and why it's his failures far more than his successes that keep him in this fight.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.8	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:12.7	Institution.
0:13.7	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.4	You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.8	Today is September 14th, 2022 and my guest is Roland Freyer of Harvard University.
0:42.9	He's awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 2015 and is one of the premier empirical
0:47.5	economists of his generation.
0:50.8	Roland, welcome to econtalk.
0:52.8	Thanks so much for having me.
0:54.6	I'm really looking forward to this morning.
0:57.6	Let's start.
0:58.6	We're going to cover a couple things in their conversation.
1:02.1	Three things actually.
1:03.1	We're going to talk about your work in education, your work in crime, and then your work
1:08.3	is an entrepreneur and adventure that you've been involved in recently.
1:14.4	I'm interested in all three.
1:16.6	Let's start with your work in education.
1:18.4	You started off.
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