While the Trump administration has been getting headlines for overhauling Obama’s health care policies and environmental protections, the White House has also been chipping away at education. Paul Reville is the Former Secretary of Education and a professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education where he also runs the Education Redesign Lab.
While Arkansas rushes to execute men on death row, Oklahoma considers extending a moratorium on executions. Former Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea Cabral joined us for that and more.
Some schools are opting to do away with homework, and suggesting that parents find alternative enrichment programs instead. There are parents who are more than happy to do away with the daily struggle of making sure their kids do their homework. Other parents say it puts an extra burden on them because they don’t have the resources to fill the homework void. We opened up the lines to ask you: Should homework be integrated into the school day so parents are exempted from this process?
MIT Economist Jonathan Gruber joined us to decode President Trump’s tax plan.
Before we were fighting over Grand Prix Boston, or the fate of the Citgo sign, or shadow banks, there was Boston 2024. It was a real David and Goliath moment with citizens and ad hoc groups carrying out a triumphant revolt against big money and institutional power brokers to keep the summer games out of Boston. This moment in Boston’s history is now the subject of a new Book: “No Boston Olympics: How and Why Smart Cities Are Passing on the Torch” by Chris Dempsey and Andrew Zimbalist. Dempsey was co-chair of No Boston Olympics, and he's now director of Transportation for Massachusetts. Andrew Zimbalist is the Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics at Smith College. They’ll be at the Harvard Bookstore on Friday at 7:00 p.m.
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