Jennifer C. Berkshire
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Oct 1, 2026
Jennifer BerkshireHOST
Have you heard? Have you heard? Have you heard? Have you heard? Have you heard? Have you heard? [upbeat music] Welcome to Have You Heard? I'm Jennifer Berkshire.
Jack SchneiderHOST
And I'm Jack Schneider.
Jennifer BerkshireHOST
And Jack, the topic of this episode is a state that I have wanted us to visit for quite some time, and that would be West Virginia.
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Jack SchneiderHOST
Let us know that you're listening.
Jack SchneiderHOST
Give us your ideas because that helps us feel connected to you because ultimately I think that's the big motivator here, is, um, you know, we're a part of something a little bit bigger than ourselves and that we all collectively believe in.
Jennifer BerkshireHOST
On that note, I'm Jennifer Berkshire.
Jack SchneiderHOST
And I'm Jack Schneider.
Jennifer BerkshireHOST
This is Have You Heard? [upbeat music]
Nick JuravichGUEST
And C, as you said, they don't like the power that's present in that collective relationship that gets built in schooling.
Nick JuravichGUEST
And so, I mean, the thing that I think about a lot in this context in the present, I, I take this from Jennifer Berkshire, I think she's done great reporting on this, is that the actual vision of school choice, of being a consumer as a parent, is exhausting, and people across the political spectrum have come to hate it, right? And I'm a parent now of two children.
Nick JuravichGUEST
My children are actually in New York City public schools.
Nick JuravichGUEST
I, I teach in Boston.
Doug HenwoodHOST
Two guests, two segments.
Doug HenwoodHOST
The education journalist Jennifer Berkshire will talk about the growing unpopularity of vouchers, and Heather Berg, author of Notes from the Sex Worker Left, will talk about what that formation brings to politics.
Doug HenwoodHOST
Before all that, I want to apologize for a joke I made about hydroponic basil grown in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Doug HenwoodHOST
a sharp contrast with its rude working-class culture in the days when a young Howard Zinn worked there.
Doug HenwoodHOST
There's some useful climate-friendly manufacturing being done there, too.
Doug HenwoodHOST
I even wrote about that in The Nation for its New York City issue in 2013.
Doug HenwoodHOST
Now we'll look at education politics with veteran Behind the News guest Jennifer Berkshire.
Doug HenwoodHOST
Jennifer is recently out with two articles, one on the brewing nationwide backlash against school vouchers in Jacobin, and the other a view of what's going on school politics-wise in the Democratic Party for the New Republic.
Doug HenwoodHOST
Two guests, two segments.
Doug HenwoodHOST
The education journalist Jennifer Berkshire will talk about the growing unpopularity of vouchers, and Heather Berg, author of Notes from the Sex Worker Left, will talk about what that formation brings to politics.
Doug HenwoodHOST
Before all that, I want to apologize for a joke I made about hydroponic basil grown in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Doug HenwoodHOST
a sharp contrast with its rude working-class culture in the days when a young Howard Zinn worked there.
Doug HenwoodHOST
There's some useful climate-friendly manufacturing being done there, too.
Doug HenwoodHOST
I even wrote about that in The Nation for its New York City issue in 2013.
Doug HenwoodHOST
Now we'll look at education politics with veteran Behind the News guest Jennifer Berkshire.
Doug HenwoodHOST
Jennifer is recently out with two articles, one on the brewing nationwide backlash against school vouchers in Jacobin, and the other a view of what's going on school politics-wise in the Democratic Party for the New Republic.
Jennifer BerkshireHOST
Welcome to Have You Heard.
Jennifer BerkshireHOST
I'm Jennifer Berkshire.
Jack SchneiderHOST
And I'm Jack Schneider.
Jennifer BerkshireHOST
And Jack, the best thing about doing this podcast, all 20,000 episodes that we've done so far, is that we get the most amazing correspondence from our listeners.
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Jack SchneiderHOST
And many teachers are saying that students are more out of control, that more bullying is happening, that there's more violation of school rules.
Jack SchneiderHOST
And many of them are saying that the school doesn't have really clear rules, doesn't have really clear procedures, has peeled a lot of that stuff back.
Jack SchneiderHOST
All of this was on my mind as I was listening to the interviews for this episode and getting ready to talk with you about it, Jennifer.
Jack SchneiderHOST
And I think that if people aren't careful...