Watchdog.org Podcast

This is “Sit Down, Shut Up,” Watchdog.org’s podcast examining education issues at the national, state and local levels. Hosts Ben Yount 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, Yount and Costa welcome fellow Watchdog reporter Yael Ossowski to the program to discuss the growth of charter schools in America. Despite what some recent studies put forward by opponets of charter schools say, there is little evidence that charter schools are reinstituting segregation or otherwise creating a race-based alternative to public schools. In fact, its quite the opposite: some of the biggest growth of charter schools is in inner cities, where traditional public schools have failed to do a good job and where charters are specifically targeting minority students.