In this third episode of Season 1 of CICE: The Podcast, Tracie Jarrard, a masters student in the International Educational Development program at Teachers College, Columbia University, looks at the history and important updates of the “Opt Out” movement in the United States with two influential researchers in the field.
Host, co-producer: Tracie Jarrard
Co-producer: Noa Urbach
Media outreach and design: Nicole Ricci
Original music for CICE: The Podcast: Michael Bellamy
A special thanks to the entire CICE: The Podcast team who made this season possible.
CICE: The Podcast is part of Current Issues in Comparative Education, an open-access journal in the field of comparative education. CICE is the oldest open student-led journal in the field. All views expressed in this episode are those of the speakers and do not reflect the views of Teachers College or Columbia University.
Learn More:
- Read our guest’s 2020 paper here.
Host
Tracie Jarrard is a second year MA student in the International Educational Development program. She was an early childhood teacher for five years in Hong Kong before attending Teachers College to study early childhood policies and programs. She founded CICE: The Podcast in Spring 2021 as a way to discuss current issues through the lens of comparative education.
Our Guests
Nancy Green Saraisky is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. She received her PhD in political science and comparative education from Columbia University, where her studies were funded by the National Science Foundation. Recent projects focus on the relationship between data, politics and policy as it relates to educational assessment, both domestically and internationally. She also researches education activism and the rhetoric of education policy making.
Oren Pizmony-Levy is an associate professor in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. He holds a PhD in sociology and comparative and international education from Indiana University-Bloomington. His research and teaching focus on the intersection between education and social movements. One line of research examines the accountability movement and its role in the emergence of international assessments of student achievement.