Unpacking "The Education Wars" with co-author Jennifer Berkshire

A conversation about the forthcoming book (out July 2)

“That was really alarming. I think that’s when I started to understand that there’s something different going on here”.

-AJ Davis, cofounder of the Lowcountry Black Parents Association, cited in The Education Wars

Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider are hosts of the education policy podcast Have You Heard.

Schneider is a researcher and professor at UMass Amherst; his work has focused heavily on creating better and more valid metrics for judging school quality (and his book Beyond Test Scores is a great introduction to this subject).

Berkshire has a PhD in English, and spent six years editing the newsletter for the Massachusetts chapter of the American Federation of Teachers. She is currently a licensed teacher and an instructor in the Boston College Prison Education Program, as well as a journalist and a lecturer at Yale University.

A spiritual sequel.

At the outset of the pandemic, Berkshire and Schneider published A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, an excellent, deeply-researched, an…