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Episode: Why Our Children's Education Demands More Than Just Schools
Description: Send a textDr. Karen Underwood opens a window into education's past, present, and uncertain future in this thought-provoking conversation. Drawing from three decades of teaching experience across multiple states, she offers rare and valuable insights into how our educational systems function—or dysfunction—across different cultural and geographical contexts.The stark contrast between New York City's education system and those in southern states reveals how politics infiltrates classrooms. In New York, administrators could "move education forward without stumbling blocks," while southern school boards often include members who "have never been inside a school system," crea...