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Hear Me Out: Schools Do Too Much (Often Badly)

Category: Education
Duration: 00:45:43
Publish Date: 2024-08-20 07:00:00
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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.


If you have thoughts you want to share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can email the show: hearmeout@slate.com


Podcast production by Maura Currie.


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