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  FreshEd #433 - Pledging the Future of Education (Gita Steiner-Khamsi) 04.10.2026 36p

  Love the podcast? Become a member to support FreshEd! freshedpodcast.com/support/#join -- Today we go inside the pledging event for the Global Partnership for Education, held during this year's UN General Assembly in New York, where donors announced new commitments to finance education. What does it mean to pledge money to the future? And how do those promises reorder things in the present? My guest is Gita Steiner-Khamsi, who was in the room. Gita Steiner-Khamsi is the William Heard Kilpatrick Professor of Comparative Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and holds the honorary UNESCO Chair of Comparative Education Policy at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Her most recent book is entitled Data for accountability: Global trends in school reform, which is available open access. https://freshedpodcast.com/433-steiner-khamsi/ -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]
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  FreshEd #432 – India’s Cockroach Movement (Susan Ann Samuel) 27.09.2026 31p

  Love the podcast? Become a member to support FreshEd! https://freshedpodcast.com/support/#join -- Today we explore the education origins of the cockroach protests in India. My guest is Susan Ann Samuel. Susan Ann Samuel is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International Climate Politics at the University of Leeds. She’s recently written in The Conversation about India’s cockroach Movement. -- freshedpodcast.com/samuel -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]
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  FreshEd #102 - Empowered educators (Linda Darling-Hammond) 20.09.2026 34p

  Join our growing FreshEd community to support the podcast and receive exclusive benefits. Sign up at FreshEdpodcast.com. -- Today, Linda Darling-Hammond joins me to talk about her new co-authored book Empowered Educators: How high-performing systems shape teaching quality around the world. The book explores how several countries and jurisdictions have developed comprehensive teaching and learning systems that produce a range of positive outcomes, from student achievement to equity and from a professionalized teaching workforce to the integration of research and practice. Linda Darling-Hammond is the president of the Learning Policy Institute and a Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University. https://freshedpodcast.com/lindadarlinghammond/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]
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  FreshEd #388 – The State of Publishing in Education Research (Gustavo Fischman) 13.09.2026 32p

  If you want to join our growing community, sign up at FreshEdpodcast.com. -- Today we take stock of academic publishing in education research. From the massive growth in article submissions, to the growing profit margins of the major publishers and to the impact Generative AI is having on scholarship – we take a critical look at the state of publishing. With me is Gustavo Fischman who was the previous editor of Education Policy Analysis Archives and is the current co-editor in chief of AERA Open. Gustavo Fischman is a professor of education policy at Arizona State University. A few years ago he co-wrote the piece “Education research is still the hardest science: a proposal for improving its trustworthiness and usability.” freshedpodcast.com/fischman/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]
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  FreshEd #431 – 25 Years after September 11th (Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher) 06.09.2026 29p

  Love the podcast? Become a member to support FreshEd! https://freshedpodcast.com/support/#join -- Today we mark the 25th anniversary of September 11th by unpacking that day’s lasting impact on society, culture, and schools in the United States. My Guest is Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher. Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Teaching Beyond September 11th curriculum project. -- freshedpodcast.com/431-ghaffar-kucher -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]
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  FreshEd #352 – Education, Affect, and Film (Irving Epstein) 30.08.2026 28p

  FreshEd will be back next week with new episodes! Not a member? Join us! https://freshedpodcast.com/support/ -- Today we put the field of comparative and international education in conversation with film studies. With me is Irving Epstein, emeritus Professor at Illinois Wesleyan University. Irving Epstein’s new book is entitled Education, Affect, and Film: Visual Imaginings and Global Explorations Through a Comparative Lens. It will be published in June by Bloomsbury. freshedpodcast.com/epstein/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected] Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/
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  FreshEd #313 – Black Lives Matter and Comparative Education (Sharon Walker and Krystal Strong) 23.08.2026 39p

  If you're a student, FreshEd now has a membership tier just for you. StudentFresh is $5/month and helps keep FreshEd free and open for everyone, while giving you a way to directly support the show. https://freshedpodcast.com/support/#studentfresh -- Today we talk about Black Lives Matter and what it means for the field of comparative and international education. With me are Sharon Walker and Krystal Strong, who have recently co-edited with Derron Wallace, Arathi Sriprakash, Leon Tikly, and Crain Soudien, a special issue of Comparative Education Review entitled “Black Lives Matter and Global Struggles for Racial Justice in Education.” freshedpodcast.com/walker-strong/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected] Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate
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  FreshEd #430 – Global perspectives on the philosophy of Education (Liz Jackson) 16.08.2026 32p

  We've launched a student membership tier. Join today if you are a student who wants to support the work of FreshEd! https://freshedpodcast.com/support/#studentfresh -- Today we explore the philosophy of education from global perspectives. My guest is Liz Jackson. Liz Jackson is the Karen Lo Eugene Chuang Professor in Diversity and Equity and Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. She has a forthcoming book entitled Understanding Philosophy of Education, which will be published by Edward Elgar early in 2027. freshedpodcast.com/lizjackson -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]
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  FreshEd #429 – Does ChatGPT improve student learning? (Alyssa Lawson) 09.08.2026 28p

  Today we explore the research base that tries to answer if Generative AI improves student learning. My guest, Alyssa Lawson, recently co-wrote an article that critically analysed two meta analyses of ChatGPT that found it did indeed improve learning. Alyssa and her colleagues aren’t so sure. Alyssa Lawson is a lecturer in the department of psychological and brain sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Together with Amedee Martella, Joshua Weidlick, Miriam Mulders and Josef Buchner, Alyssa co-wrote the new article “Color me confounded: a critical analysis of media comparisons on ChaptGPT in education” which was published in Computers & Education. freshedpodcast.com/lawson -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]
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  FreshEd #314 – The Culture Trap (Derron Wallace) 02.08.2026 37p

  Today we explore the experiences of Black Caribbean youth in the United Kingdom and the United States. My guest is Derron Wallace, an assistant professor of sociology and education at Brandeis University. Derron Wallace’s new book is The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth. freshedpodcast.com/wallace/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected] Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate
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  FreshEd #428 – EdTech in South and Southeast Asia (Molly Wyss and Brad Olsen) 26.07.2026 31p

  Today we explore the adoption and scaling of education technology across South and Southeast Asia. My guests are Molly Wyss and Brad Olsen. Molly Wyss is an assistant project director at the Centre for Universal Education in the Global Economy and Development Program at Brookings, where Brad Olsen is a Senior Fellow. There new report is entitled From Access to Impact: Government Decisionmaking and Scaling of EdTech in South and Southeast Asia. freshedpodcast.com/wyss-olsen -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]
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  FreshEd #427 – Problems with standardised effects sizes in education evaluations (Jack Rossiter) 19.07.2026 37p

  Today we unpack various sources of distortion when calculating standardised effect sizes in education evaluations. This might seem technical, but understanding how measures of effectiveness are calculated can help us temper the confidence we place in claims about "what works." My guest is Jack Rossiter. Jack Rossiter is an independent researcher and non-resident fellow at the Centre for Global Development. Together with David Evans, Susannah Hares, and Catherine Henny, he recently co-wrote the working paper entitled “The Illusion of Comparability Among Standardised Effect Sizes: Why Education Evaluations Should Report Raw Effects.” freshedpodcast.com/rossiter -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]
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  FreshEd #109 – Learning to be a teacher (Maria Teresa Tatto and Ian Menter) 12.07.2026 41p

  How do teachers learn to teach? My guests today, Maria Teresa Tatto and Ian Menter, discuss the many paths to become a teacher in England and the USA and the policy environment that is shaping current practice. Learning to be a teacher, they argue, requires much more than simply having a lot of content knowledge. Just because you may know math really well does not mean that you would be a good math teach. Teaching is a skill that must be systematically learned and practiced. Together with Katharine Burn, Trevor Mutton, and Ian Thompson, Teresa and Ian have a new co-written book entitled Learning to Teach in England and the United States: The Evolution of Policy and Practice, which was published by Routledge earlier this year. Maria Teresa Tatto is Professor in the Division of Educational Leadership and Innovation at Arizona State University, and the Southwest Borderlands Professor of Comparative Education at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Ian Menter is Emeritus Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. www.freshedpodcast.com/tatto-menter -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]
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  FreshEd #426 - Rohingya Refugee Teachers in Cox’s Bazar (Chris Henderson) 05.07.2026 25p

  Today we explore the Rohingya refugee crisis. My guest, Chris Henderson, conducted research on teacher motivation in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, which is home to over 1 million Rohingya refugees. Chris Henderson is an Education in Emergencies Specialist at NORRAG at the Geneva Graduate Institute. His latest article, which entitled “Through teaching I found myself again”: The role of self-efficacy in Rohingya refugee teachers’ motivation to teach in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, will soon be published in Compare. freshedpodcast.com/henderson -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]
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  FreshEd #117 – Teachers and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Jelmer Evers) 28.06.2026 37p

  Today we continue our exploration of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and what it means for education. Last week, we looked at comparative education as a field. Today we look at teachers. What are the prospects and perils of the fourth industrial revolution for teachers? My guest today is Jelmer Evers. Jelmer is a teacher, blogger, writer, and innovator. He teaches history at UniC in the Netherlands and works with Education International, the global federation of teacher unions. He was nominated for the global teacher prize in 2012 and is known for his book called Flip the System. Today Jelmer and I discuss his new co-edited volume Teaching in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Standing at the Precipice, which was published by Routledge earlier this year. www.freshedpodcast.com/jelmerevers/ -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]
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  FreshEd #336 – Digital Humanitarianism (Fleur Johns) 21.06.2026 41p

  Today we look at digital humanitarianism and how digital interfaces are constructing new forms and modes of governance. My guest is Fleur Johns, who has recently authored the new book #Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order. Fleur Johns is a professor in the faculty of law and justice at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. She is currently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. freshedpodcast.com/johns -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected] Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate
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  FreshEd #327 - Building the Post-Pandemic University (Mark Carrigan and Susan Robertson) 14.06.2026 36p

  Today we take stock of the Covid-19 pandemic and higher education. After nearly four years, how have universities changed and what might their future look like? With me to discuss the post-pandemic university are Mark Carrigan and Susan Robertson. Mark Carrigan is a lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Susan Robertson is a professor of the sociology of education at Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge. Together with Hannah Moscovitz and Michele Martini, they’ve recently co-edited the volume entitled Building the Post-Pandemic University: Imagining, Contesting and materializing Higher Education Futures. freshedpodcast.com/carrigan-robertson/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected] Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate
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  FreshEd #425 – Hacking Canvas; or Reimagining Technology in Education (Claire Bond Potter) 07.06.2026 29p

  Today we unpack the massive global hack of the Canvas Learning Management System in May 2026 that impacted some 9000 education institutions and stole an estimated 275 million users’ data. To discuss this event and its implications with me is Claire Bond Potter. Claire Bond Potter is Professor of History emeritus at The New School for Social Research, author of the Political Junkie Substack, and creator of Why Now?, a political-history podcast . Her latest article in Chronicle of Higher Education is entitled Kill Canvas. Now. freshedpodcast.com/potter -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]
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  FreshEd #340 – Funding, Equity & Achievement in Australian Schools (Barbara Preston) 01.06.2026 29p

  Today we look at funding, equity, and achievement in Australian Schools. My guest is Barbara Preston. Barbara Preston is an Independent Researcher based in Canberra. She’s recently authored the report “Funding, Equity and Achievement in Australian Schools,” which documents a national symposium that was convened by Jane Kenway and Fazal Rizvi earlier this year. freshedpodcast.com/preston -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected] Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate
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  FreshEd #424 – Cultivating Engaged Citizens through Higher Education (Leping Mou & Radomir Ray Mitic) 25.05.2026 29p

  What’s the value of higher education in terms of civic engagement? My guests today, Leping Mou and Ray Mitic, try to answer that question empirically. Leping Mou is a lecturer in education at the University of Glasgow. Ray Mitic is an assistant professor of higher education at William & Mary. Their new paper is entitled: “The Value of Higher Education in Cultivating Engaged Citizens: Longitudinal Evidence from the Liberal Arts Model”, which was published in the journal Innovative Higher Education. freshedpodcast.com/mou-mitic/ -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]