Latest Episodes

#1558: School Librarians Fight COVID Slide | The Best Of Our Knowledge
This week on the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll hear about the fight against COVID slide. Summer slide happens every year. When students return...

#1557: Skills 21 & Teacher Hiring In A Recession | The Best Of Our Knowledge
Skills 21 is a program in Connecticut that has challenged students to innovate and be creative for years. Earlier this year, along with the...

#1556: Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth | The Best Of Our Knowledge
Nearly five million young people, more than 10 percent of youth aged sixteen to twenty-four, experience entry into adulthood as abrupt abandonment. This week...

#1555: Demagogue – The Life Of Senator Joe McCarthy | The Best Of Our Knowledge
On this week’s The Best Of Our Knowledge, we’ll talk about the new biography Demagogue – The Life and Long Shadow Of Senator Joe...

#1554: The Segregationist History Of School Choice | The Best Of Our Knowledge
Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll hear about the segregationist history of the school choice movement. School choice has been an explosive...

#1553: Deepwater Horizon: 10 Years Later | The Best Of Our Knowledge
The Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig exploded in April of 2010. But it was 10 years ago this month that the oil began showing...