Sparking Equity brings to you the most creative thinking and best strategies for ensuring that all students succeed, with a focus on low-income students and students of color.
Join hosts Pedro Noguera and Lande Ajose as they explore key issues such as restoring arts and music education in schools, how to engage parents in their children’s education in a positive way, coping with mental health challenges on college campuses, and what's next on the student loan relief battleground. Executive producer and correspondent for Sparking Equity is veteran education journalist Louis Freedberg, director of the Advancing Education Success Initiative.
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Lande Ajose, the managing director of the Waverley Street Foundation, a start-up foundation focused on climate change, hosts the podcast episodes on postsecondary education. She is the former executive director of California Competes, chair of the California Student Aid Commission, and senior advisor to Gov. Gavin Newson on higher education.
Pedro Noguera, dean of the USC Rossier School of Education, will host the podcasts on preK-12 education. He is a nationally known author and speaker, with a considerable following. Importantly, he also has a track record of reaching across ideological divides, as evidenced by his book “A Search for Common Ground,” co-authored with Frederick Hess from the American Enterprise Institute, and their “common ground” podcasts.
Veteran education journalist Louis Freedberg is executive producer of the Sparking Equity podcast, and director of the Advancing Education Success Initiative. He is currently also Interim CEO of EdSource, the leading journalism organization reporting on education in California. \