All Of The Above Podcast

We’ve heard the rhetoric for years that educator diversity is important not only for students of color, but also for white students. This week we take a look at ongoing efforts to diversify our profession--paying particular attention to Jeff’s old stomping grounds of Minnesota! Minnesota may not immediately come to mind as a place where interesting work around this issue is happening, but our super-dope guests Mikisha Nation and James Barnett prove otherwise. Mikisha is the Executive Director for Teach for America’s Twin Cities region and James is the Executive Director of Teach Minnesota, one of the state's first-ever alternative teacher licensure programs which aims to increase the number of teachers of color for high-need schools across the state. We talk recruitment, retention, strikes, backlash, and more! But first, Jeff and Manuel take a look at recent headlines in education including an apparent rise in academic dishonesty among college students and a new study about whether tuition guarantees for low-