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  • American Adolescence in 2026 (with Daniel A. Cox)

    October 21, 2026 · 1 hr 26 min

    On The Report Card, we talk a lot about schools, but in this episode we do something a little different and talk about one of the populations schools serve: adolescents. How are technologies such as social media, AI, and location tracking…

  • Private Tutoring Centers—A Bigger Deal than You Think (with Joshua Goodman)

    October 7, 2026 · 59 min

    Kumon, Sylvan Learning, Mathnasium, and Huntington Learning Center—these private tutoring chains are familiar names, but they have received little attention from education researchers. According to recent research co-authored by Josh…

  • Implementing AI (with Philip Oreopoulos)

    September 23, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

    Proponents of education technology have often made big promises about its potential to transform schooling, but so far, ed tech has failed to live up to its promise. Will AI also fail to deliver, or will it finally be the education…

  • Should We Close the US Department of Education?

    September 9, 2026 · 1 hr 26 min

    According to many in the Trump administration, closing the US Department of Education would increase efficiency, reduce bureaucracy, and give states more control over education. But according to opponents of the move, closing the…

  • How Schools Should Approach Mental Health (with Carolyn D. Gorman)

    August 26, 2026 · 58 min

    Many schools today offer mental health programming, but according to Carolyn Gorman, a lot of school mental health programming is not only wasteful and ineffective but also directionally misguided: School mental health programming often…

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  • How AI and Screens Are Changing Reading (with Naomi Baron)

    August 12, 2026 · 1 hr 33 min

    AI is transforming not only the way students work but also the way they read. AI summarizes readings for students, changing the way they engage with texts, form judgments, and—perhaps—develop cognitively. On this episode of The Report…

  • Curriculum, Coherence, and Change (with John White)

    July 29, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

    On this episode of The Report Card, Nat Malkus speaks with John White about state education leadership, how the education landscape has changed over the last few decades, innovation in education and where it tends to go wrong, the…

  • The Latest on Chronic Absenteeism (with Nat Malkus)

    July 15, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min

    During the pandemic, national chronic absenteeism rates surged across all demographics, but what has happened to chronic absenteeism rates since then? Are chronic absenteeism rates back to pre-pandemic levels? Is chronic absenteeism less…

  • The Semiquincentennial Edition (with Yuval Levin)

    July 1, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

    In a few short days, we’ll be celebrating America’s 250th birthday, but rather than feeling uniformly triumphant and celebratory, America’s Semiquincentennial comes at a time when many worry about the state of our democracy and civic…

  • Inside the Department of Education (with Kirsten Baesler)

    June 17, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

    The Department of Education has said it is trying to return education to the states, but what does that mean for the federal role in education and for the states expected to take on more responsibility? What is the Department doing now to…

  • What Harvard's New Grade Inflation Policy Gets Wrong (with Scott Duke Kominers)

    June 3, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min

    Recently, Harvard faculty voted to push back on grade inflation at the institution by capping the proportion of A’s given to students at 20%. But according to a new paper, Harvard’s new policy—and grade caps in general—are not the right…

  • A Rising Tide in Alabama (with Eric Mackey)

    May 20, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

    Historically, many didn’t consider Alabama to be at the forefront of education, but Alabama’s pandemic recovery may be among the best in the nation. Perhaps most impressively, Alabama was the only state whose 4th-grade math NAEP scores…

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About the show

The Report Card with Nat Malkus is the education podcast of the American Enterprise Institute. It is a hub for discussing innovative work to improve education – from early childhood to higher education – and the lives of America’s children. It evaluates research, policy, and practice efforts to improve the lives of families, schools and students. The Report Card seeks to engage with everyone who is interested in education in an accessible way. It brings guests that are doing compelling work across a spectrum from high level policy changes to innovations at the classroom level, work that will start conversations about improving education and the lives of children more broadly. Each episode lets listeners – policymakers, teachers, and parents –learn relevant information that they can use in their efforts to improve education.