Watchdog.org Podcast

This is “Sit Down, Shut Up,” Watchdog.org’s podcast examining education issues at the national, state and local levels. Hosts Eric Boehm and Moriah Costa take a critical look at the education establishment, the growth of school choice and the ways free markets can be a part of fixing America’s broken school system. In this week's episode, we take a look at Lee Siegel's insulting New York Times op-ed in which the writer congratulated himself for defaulting on his student loans and advised other college graduates to do the same (while acknowledging that if everyone followed his advice, the entire higher education system would come crashing down on itself).  Siegel's was roundly trounced on the Internet (from both the left and the right) for his endorsement of personal irresponsibility, and rightfully so. Then, Costa sits down with Nina Rees, CEO of the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools, to reflect on the past school year and look at where charter schools have seen growth -