ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
A podcast that gets to the heart of schools in California and beyond, bringing you the personal stories behind the headlines, from preschool to college. Join the team at EdSource each week to hear the voices that are too often drowned out in the broader conversation: parents, teachers, and the students themselves.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
18 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
244 episodes
since July 30, 2021
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~94.42% of listeners are from United States.
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US
94.42%
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PH
4.38%
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ES
0.79%
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IN
0.39%
Others
0.02%
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Five years ago in 2021, EdSource launched Education Beat for the first time. Today, we say goodbye. This will be the final episode. Over the years, we've aimed to bring you personal stories of students, teachers, parents — regular people who bring EdSource stories alive by showing how education pol…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
On a sweltering hot day at UC Merced in May 2025, three siblings crossed the stage in blue gowns and caps, to receive their diplomas. Watching with pride from the audience were their mother, father and younger sister.
This moment, with all of them celebrating together, was the culmination of ye…
Liliana Messinger was in fourth grade when she first turned to an AI chatbot for help with panic attacks. Over the years, she turned to AI again and again.
For a growing number of teenagers, AI chatbots have become a first stop when things get tough, in part because of the shortage of mental he…
As teachers and students get ready to go back to school, Education Beat brings you this special repeat episode:
With the expansion of transitional kindergarten to all 4-year-olds, California schools need smaller toilets, smaller sinks and a whole new understanding of the importance of play in t…
Thousands of UC STEM professors have signed an open letter calling on UC to again require the SAT or ACT for admissions. They say they are seeing more and more students arriving to college so poorly prepared that they can't solve middle-school math equations.
But not all faculty agree that rein…
Texas offers more bilingual education than California and backs it up with more funding.
We visit an elementary school and a middle school in Austin, Texas, where students learn in Spanish and English. And we talk with a researcher about why Texas is so much farther ahead than California in bil…
Under the current Trump administration, nearly 700 children in California have been detained and more than 400 deported, according to an EdSource analysis of Immigration and Customs Enforcement data obtained by the Deportation Data Project at UC Berkeley.
One 9 year-old's deportation triggered …
When Bobbie Simpson decided to run for her local school board in Gateway Unified School District, in the far northern county of Shasta, she knew it might be difficult to win as a transgender woman. More than half the voters in Shasta County are registered Republican. A conservative Christian church…
Children with disabilities at Marie Bauer Early Education Center in Paso Robles are learning alongside peers who do not require special education services.
That’s unusual in California, where only 1 in 3 students with disabilities receive their preschool education in classrooms with their peers…
For 27 years, Yolanda Thomas has run a childcare business called Best Beginnings in her home in Contra Costa County. She usually has children start with her as babies and stay until they’re in kindergarten.
But in recent years, many parents are choosing to unenroll when their children are four…
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