ICYMI:  The non-profit journalism sites EDSURGE and Open Campus just launched a new podcast called "Bootstraps."  

In the series, they discuss the "longstanding tradition of prizing 'merit' in deciding which students get access to the best educational opportunities in America. The narrative goes that a merit-based system allows anyone 'to pull themselves up by their bootstraps' to land a slot in a selective public magnet school or an elite college. But does the current system achieve equality? Are there potentially better—or at least fairer—ways to allocate educational opportunity?

This 6-episode podcast series aims to explore those questions through in-depth reporting and compelling audio storytelling. Each episode will tell the story of popular myths and assumptions of education, and along the way we'll look at experiments in distributing educational opportunity. The goal is to introduce listeners to the complexities of the issues through rich characters struggling to balance their own needs and dreams with those of the broader community."

Available at iTunes and wherever you get your podcasts.
Listen to the first episode here:  Bootstraps: A Podcast Series

Learn More about EdSurge - https://www.edsurge.com/
Learn More about Open Campus - https://www.opencampusmedia.org/