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What Harvard's New Grade Inflation Policy Gets Wrong (with Scott Duke Kominers)
Recently, Harvard faculty voted to push back on grade inflation at the institution by capping the proportion of A’s given to students at 20%. But according to a new paper, Harvard’s new policy—and…
A Rising Tide in Alabama (with Eric Mackey)
Historically, many didn’t consider Alabama to be at the forefront of education, but Alabama’s pandemic recovery may be among the best in the nation.Perhaps most impressively, Alabama was the only…
Education and the Second Trump Administration, 471 Days In
Although the Trump administration’s efforts to reform education might not be making national headlines quite as often as they did one year ago, a lot has still happened in education over the last…
What Can AI Replace in Higher Education? (with Hollis Robbins)
This podcast has covered AI in K–12 education a fair amount, but how will and how should AI change higher education?Should any human instructors be replaced with AI? Should universities change what…
Best Of: Eva Moskowitz on Success Academy
Note: This episode originally aired in April 2025.On this episode of The Report Card, Nat Malkus speaks with Eva Moskowitz, the founder and CEO of Success Academy. Nat and Eva discuss why COVID…
The Effects of Grade Inflation (with Jeff Denning)
Recently, there has been a lot of handwringing over grade inflation both at the higher education and K–12 levels, but how big of a problem actually is grade inflation? What sort of effect does grade…
Mathematical Flexibility and Teaching Middle School Math (with Jon Star)
Math is one of the subjects that gets the most attention in American education, but how well do we actually understand what good math instruction should look like?Should math classes consist of…
Lee Bollinger on Universities and the Trump Administration
Over the past year, the Trump administration has rewritten the playbook for how Washington interacts with higher education, especially elite universities.How should universities respond to the Trump…
The Making of America’s Schools: From Revolution to Civil War (with Johann Neem)
To commemorate America’s 250th anniversary, The Report Card will be releasing a few episodes on the history of American education—both to discuss how we arrived at the education system we have today…
Randi Weingarten on the Teaching Profession
On the right, teachers’ unions are often treated as the bogeyman, and no one today is more synonymous with teachers’ unions than Randi Weingarten. Indeed, in 2022 former Secretary of State Mike…
Math Academy (with Jason Roberts and Justin Skycak)
Can students learn math much faster than they typically do? Can students who feel like they have hit a wall in math instruction make steady progress again? And can math instruction be successfully…
2025 in Review
We are now coming to the end of another year. What were the biggest stories in education this year? What stories didn’t get as much attention as they should have? And what can we expect in the coming…
Should AI Be Used in Classrooms Today?
In classrooms across the nation, students and teachers are using AI—but should they be?AI’s advocates argue that it can be used to individualize instruction and provide personalized feedback, but its…
Alpha School (with MacKenzie Price)
One of the hottest names in education right now is Alpha School. A network of high-end private schools founded in Texas but with additional locations elsewhere, Alpha School uses AI to implement…
Education and the Second Trump Administration, 303 Days In
On this episode of The Report Card, Nat Malkus, Rick Hess, and Andy Rotherham discuss what recent elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York City mean for education, the Trump administration’s…
Lessons from Pandemic-Era Tutoring (with Liz Cohen)
For decades, there has been research showing that tutoring can be a highly effective mode of instruction, but before 2020, large, in-school tutoring programs were not widespread. Then the pandemic…
Houston, We Have a Solution (with Mike Miles)
In August 2023, right after he took over as superintendent of Houston ISD, Mike Miles came on The Report Card to talk about his plans for Texas’s largest school district. From changing teacher pay to…
Do Phones Make Students Less Able to Focus? (with Dan Willingham)
TikTok. Instagram. Constant notifications. Many worry that phones are destroying students’ ability to pay attention and, in turn, their ability to learn in the classroom. Indeed, even many adults say…
Why Are Test Scores Falling? (with James Wyckoff and Chad Aldeman)
Earlier this month, 2024 NAEP scores came out for 8th grade science and 12th grade reading and math, and the results were not good, with students losing ground in each subject. But these declines are…
Education and the Second Trump Administration, 233 Days In
A lot has happened in education over the last couple of months. A new school year started for students across the country. State governors began announcing whether they would be opting in to the new…
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