All of the Above Podcast
1) Are Male Teachers Going Out of Style?
This Week: Not sure we were ever in style, to be honest. But, some new data from SUNY Albany shows that the common assumption that the lack of male teachers -- nearly 90% of elementary teachers are f...Show More
2) ICE terrorism hurts student learning… and water is wet
Today on AOTA Shorts: In a both groundbreaking and not at all surprising analysis of student test scores from a Florida community besieged by ICE terrorism and lawless detainment of community members,...Show More
3) While the USDOE Trolls us Online, Voters in Colorado Say Tax the Rich to Feed the Kids
This Week: We begin with some highlights from members of the AOTA family. One listener responds to last week’s discussion about vouchers and reports from the dark side in FL about what it’s like for p...Show More
4) Turning School into Shopping at Amazon, and the Continued Gaslighting of Educators About Antisemitism
This Week: The state of Florida has distinguished itself in recent years as a true laboratory for right wing extremist policy in education. Well, the process continues as the impacts of vouchers and e...Show More
5) Cops pull guns on Black student: AI said his bag of chips was a gun
Today on AOTA Shorts: Algorithmic bias is the technical term. Racism in, racism out. But in practice, the unthinkable nearly came to pass last week when a high school student in Baltimore County, MD w...Show More
6) Those who can’t do, teach…right?
This Week: The popular narrative in the American public discourse that teaching is somehow both super easy -- you get off at 3, you have summers off, it’s an easy profession to enter -- and also so ha...Show More
7) AI Is Eroding Student-Teacher Trust
Today on AOTA Shorts: You’ve probably thought about the consequences of AI in school -- cheating, making us dumber, rampant and undetectable plagiarism, making learning obsolete -- and if you’re on to...Show More
8) A Dose of Their Own Medicine: CO District Sued for Book Bans
Today on AOTA Shorts: We’ve talked a lot about the potential costs to school systems (and taxpayers, of course) for the madness of book bans and laws allowing the challenging of “woke” content in scho...Show More
9) Trump & McMahon Put Nail in the Coffin of USDOE
Today on AOTA Shorts: They said they were going to do it before the election. They began the process of death by 1000 cuts (or a few dozen cuts as it may be) in week one when they took office. And now...Show More
10) Cash for Attendance: Good Look, or Nah?
This Week: Everyone in education knows that chronic absenteeism is a big deal. While the numbers are improving slowly in recent years, we’ve still yet to return to pre-pandemic levels of students who ...Show More