Over the past decade, schools increasingly have become a battleground for political fights and culture wars that distract from student learning. But, according to a new book, these political fights and culture wars are just one aspect of a much larger and more longstanding problem: schooling is often shaped by the interests of adults. From school boards to partisan identity, from teacher employment to property values, in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Adult-Left-Behind-Education-Comparative/dp/100960631X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=34Q9UY3GYFJ1N&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-tpgcrhze1LeKkYQ04kD51Bagdpw3I3XgI9t9Lwr3BXKGP6xbAuUTUOHnYR0qFokflbZr6Szj_ZUm_bTEMQUdxuMGx-I8jT6Sma3d5pERM5ErILPifZqfH2rs_xtPXDXo6K7wrEXH8lUA9JyOxEPmEGL9kJUN8Udp-SV5My-40zZEZrnyuBivMFTC465zSCioEz8i5eXhEgkeHVq_EOIFsSIOjgmO6JlbtuGioPzrSQ.79ieTa8ajdghcEdW7ykjbSodb1cdFli1BjbQW8Eb0CQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=no+adult+left+behind&qid=1755110409&sprefix=no+adult%2Caps%2C116&sr=8-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">No Adult Left Behind</a>, Vlad Kogan traces the many ways in which the concerns of adults get in the way of student outcomes. On this episode of <a href="https://www.aei.org/tag/the-report-card-podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Report Card</a>, <a href="https://www.aei.org/profile/nathaniel-n-malkus/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nat Malkus</a> discusses these problems, and what to do about them, with <a href="https://u.osu.edu/kogan.18" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Vlad Kogan</a>. Nat and Vlad discuss school boards and state takeovers, how political identity shapes education debates, what the public gets wrong about the Scopes trial and the early twentieth-century push against teaching evolution in schools, why parents seem to undervalue education quality, closing schools with falling enrollments, how racial equity concerns for adults can conflict with racial equity concerns for children, what charter schools can teach us about district governance, and more.Vladimir Kogan is a professor of political science at The Ohio State University and the author of No Adult Left Behind: How Politics Hijacks Education Policy and Hurts Kids.

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