In the fourth installment of their new weekly education podcast, "Fair Assessment," hosts Ali Noland and Gwen Faulkenberry interview Arkansas state Sen. Linda Chesterfield about her 30-year career as a classroom teacher, the value of teacher's unions, her frustration with the legislative process used to pass the LEARNS Act and the real-world implic…

In the third installment of "Fair Assessment," the new Arkansas education podcast, Little Rock School Board member Ali Noland and veteran classroom teacher Gwen Faulkenberry interview Steve Grappe, executive director of Citizens for Arkansas Public Education and Students (CAPES), which is the group working to repeal the LEARNS Act. They also discus…

In the second episode of their new Arkansas Education Podcast, Fair Assessment, hosts Gwen Faulkenberry and Ali Noland discuss several additional themes that have become prominent in education-related politics and culture in Arkansas. First, Gwen, a veteran classroom teacher who hails from a long line of proud public educators, discusses the recent…

In this first episode of Fair Assessment, co-hosts Ali Noland, an attorney and school-board member in Little Rock, and Gwen Faulkenberry, a veteran classroom teacher in rural Arkansas, introduce themselves to listeners, explain their motivation for creating an Arkansas education podcast, and start a discussion about some of the big themes that have…