Welcome to another week of BustED Pencils! In this homeroom, artificial intelligence is back in the news. As AI advances at a mind-boggling rate, many teachers lag behind their students in mastery of the tools. Recall from our episode with Marc Watkins how AI’s rapid development presents a unique change in how we interact with […]

Wouldn’t it be neat to be able to choose your college based on the quality of the institution’s teaching? Wait- isn’t that what we do? As it turns out, no. Because we don’t measure that. Jonathan Zimmerman, author of The Amateur Hour and Professor of Research of History at Penn University , is now a […]

Thank goodness, it’s Busted Pencils First Downs and Friday Night Lights! Civic Media WXCO Operations Manager and host Chad Holmes joins Tim and Johnny to talk about some changes in high school football. Many schools in Wisconsin are moving to an 8-player game from the traditional 11-player model. The move brings real promise in terms […]

Allen Levie knows what it means to Thrive in a Public School- he literally wrote the book on it. And now he also knows how to bust pencils! Dr. Tim and Dr. Johnny talk with Allen about how our public schools teach so much more than dates and numbers. Our public schools teach us how […]

Welcome to Homeroom, Class! Let’s get this week started with some trending news. First up: a private Catholic school seeks public funds. Then, a few takeaways from the growing push for “school choice”- otherwise known as public school funds theft. Tim and Producer Jess share their strong responses to these stories. We can’t help wondering […]