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All of the Above Podcast

All of the Above

Welcome to All of the Above, the show that gives you an un-standardized take on education! We"re your home for news and analysis of all the complex, relevant, and controversial issues impacting our schools today. Hosted by the super-dope duo of history teacher Dr. Manuel Rustin and principal-leader Jeffrey Garrett, two Black male lifelong educators based in Los Angeles. This is the podcast version of our video series. Check out the dopest education show on YouTube and subscribe to our channel at

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00:18:30

Free Reign on Discrimination in Schools as DOJ Guts...

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2025/12/27

Today on AOTA Shorts: Fulfilling her mandate as cartoon villain Attorney General, Pam Bondi effectively gutted what little civil rights infrastructure remains in the United States declaring that the use of data to prove discriminatory impact of policy is now a violation of federal law. Claiming that the long-standing rule which allowed the federal government to hold states, cities, and private entities accountable for upholding structural racism does not “sufficiently serve the public interest,”

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00:59:22

The Latest Casualty of the Anti DEI Hysteria: White Men

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2025/12/20

This Week: One one hand, it is shocking to think about, and on the other hand it’s just a continuation of America's long-standing tradition of white folks in power hurting themselves in the never ending effort to oppress others even more. The latest casualty of the anti DEI hysteria is stacking up to be men, and in particular white men. Women now occupy around 60% of all seats in college, and for many years now - in particular at the nation’s most selective colleges - affirmative action efforts

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01:00:28

Almost 40% of Students at Stanford are Disabled....

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2025/12/13

This Week: We’re diving into two higher ed topics this week. First, the University of Alabama suspends and cuts funding for two student magazines, one called Nineteen Fifty-Six, which centers Black voices and experience, and the other called Alice, which is a fashion and wellness magazine that focuses on women. Citing the Trump admin’s anti DEI hysteria and Alabama’s anti DEI law, the University says it’s complying with the law and upholding free speech, almost as if Orwell himself had written the

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00:59:58

Are Male Teachers Going Out of Style?

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2025/11/22

This Week: Not sure we were ever in style, to be honest. But, some new data from SUNY Albany shows that the common assumption that the lack of male teachers -- nearly 90% of elementary teachers are female -- hurts boys in their earliest years of academic development, may in fact be wrong. Turns out that in this study, there is no difference in academic achievement between kids who had all female teachers and those who had both male and female teachers. Does this mean male educators are obsolete, or

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00:18:35

ICE terrorism hurts student learning… and water is wet

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2025/11/19

Today on AOTA Shorts: In a both groundbreaking and not at all surprising analysis of student test scores from a Florida community besieged by ICE terrorism and lawless detainment of community members, it turns out that this sort of madness has a negative effect on student learning. Who’d a thunk it? Will this deter the right wing extremists in power to change course? Probably not. But, it’s even more clear than ever that this has nothing to do with law and order, or keeping communities safe. It’s

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00:59:35

While the USDOE Trolls us Online, Voters in Colorado...

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2025/11/15

This Week: We begin with some highlights from members of the AOTA family. One listener responds to last week’s discussion about vouchers and reports from the dark side in FL about what it’s like for parents who can’t trust the education system under Desantis. Then, is the USDOE really trolling us online with their insane social media posts? Yes. Yes, they are. What an utter embarrassment to the office and the profession. Lastly, we celebrate the people of Colorado voting to increase taxes on higher

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01:08:31

Turning School into Shopping at Amazon, and the...

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2025/11/09

This Week: The state of Florida has distinguished itself in recent years as a true laboratory for right wing extremist policy in education. Well, the process continues as the impacts of vouchers and efforts to privatize public education are reaching new heights. As schools battle for “market share” and districts sell access to courses on an Amazon-like website, the public coffers are being drained faster than ever before. Meanwhile, in so-called liberal California, amidst the passage of AB 715,

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00:22:57

Cops pull guns on Black student: AI said his bag of...

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2025/11/05

Today on AOTA Shorts: Algorithmic bias is the technical term. Racism in, racism out. But in practice, the unthinkable nearly came to pass last week when a high school student in Baltimore County, MD was hanging outside his school and was soon confronted by armed police ordering him to the ground. The boy had finished a bag of Doritos, crumpled it up and placed it in his pocket, which the school’s AI security system deemed to be a weapon. This triggered the notification of law enforcement, who

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01:01:35

Those who can’t do, teach…right?

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2025/11/01

This Week: The popular narrative in the American public discourse that teaching is somehow both super easy -- you get off at 3, you have summers off, it’s an easy profession to enter -- and also so hard and low paying that it’s a “noble” profession like the priesthood, still persists. Some new data from the 2025 RAND Corp’s American Teacher Survey tells a much more stark narrative about the stress, burnout, and challenges of doing the work. And, the comparisons between American educators and those

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00:18:47

AI Is Eroding Student-Teacher Trust

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2025/10/29

Today on AOTA Shorts: You’ve probably thought about the consequences of AI in school -- cheating, making us dumber, rampant and undetectable plagiarism, making learning obsolete -- and if you’re on top of it, you’ve probably also thought about the devastating climate and ecological impacts on school communities. But a recent article explores a new facet of the challenges with AI, the deep erosion of trust between students and teachers. Presumptions of guilt and big brother academic policing

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00:14:39

A Dose of Their Own Medicine: CO District Sued for...

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2025/10/22

Today on AOTA Shorts: We’ve talked a lot about the potential costs to school systems (and taxpayers, of course) for the madness of book bans and laws allowing the challenging of “woke” content in schools. But a story out of a small district in Colorado offers, perhaps, new hope in the equation. Give em a dose of their own medicine. Elizabeth School District is facing a lawsuit from the ALCU and families challenging their ban on books featuring LGBTQ characters and written by authors of color. As the

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00:17:56

Trump & McMahon Put Nail in the Coffin of USDOE

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2025/10/18

Today on AOTA Shorts: They said they were going to do it before the election. They began the process of death by 1000 cuts (or a few dozen cuts as it may be) in week one when they took office. And now that the government shutdown continues, the clearly unconstitutional goal of ending the US Department of Education has been made this week, with Trump and Linda McMahon laying off nearly every worker in the USDOE Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. But, as with all things fascist and

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01:02:25

Cash for Attendance: Good Look, or Nah?

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2025/10/13

This Week: Everyone in education knows that chronic absenteeism is a big deal. While the numbers are improving slowly in recent years, we’ve still yet to return to pre-pandemic levels of students who miss multiple days of school each month. So what should schools do to address this issue? Well, California has finally repealed its law throwing criminal penalties at families for truancy, acknowledging it was a failure and only punishes families already struggling with a plethora of issues. And in

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00:16:08

Teacher Pay Penalty Hits Record High

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2025/10/10

Today on AOTA Shorts: You’ve heard it all… summers off, your day ends at 3pm, so many holidays, what you do is so admirable, affirmations of the belief that we should pay teachers more (as they vote against the measures to do so). As we face national teacher shortages, attacks on public education from the right, and declining budgets, turns out the teacher pay gap has gotten worse than ever. Compared to comparably educated professions, teachers earn only 73 cents on the dollar earned by their

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00:13:35

White Affirmative Action: The Classic Learning Test...

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2025/10/08

Today on AOTA Shorts: In what we can only think of as some new wave, reverse reverse racism nonsense, the Classic Standardized Test is gaining ground nationally as a competitor to the traditional college entrance exams. The test essentially does that the SAT and ACT do, but with longer, mostly whiter reading passages, supposedly rooted in the “classic” works that have shaped “our” (who exactly?) history and culture. Of course, Florida became the first state in the country to accept the test in its

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00:14:20

USC Doubles Down on Legacy and Donor Admits,...

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2025/10/06

Today on AOTA Shorts: Haters call them the “University of Spoiled Children” but USC isn’t doing themselves any favors these days with a brazen violation of the new CA law banning donor and legacy status being used as a factor in the college admissions process even at private universities in the state. USC will have to share data on legacy and donor admits, and will be placed on the state DOJ website for what can be described as a proverbial slap on the wrist. Yet again, when confronted with the

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01:06:08

Dumber by Design: Faculty Prepare for An Exodus from...

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2025/09/27

This Week: As the right wing war on higher education continues a climate of “fear and hopelessness” sets in among the ranks of college faculty across the former confederate states in particular. One in four scholars in the south report applying to a job in another state, primarily states in the north and west where the restrictions on research, attacks on academic freedom, and repression of marginalized groups is at least not being exacerbated at the state level. Also, we do a round up of fascist

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01:15:12

Amidst the Chilling Effect: Educator Free Speech,...

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2025/09/20

This Week: Educators across the country are facing investigations, professional sanctions, doxing, and being placed on public lists in states across the country for statements posted following the public execution of right wing leader Charlie Kirk. The chilling effect being felt by educators nationally, and especially in states like Florida, raises new concerns about the rights educators have to free speech and academic freedom, as well as questions about the impact this right wing backlash will

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01:05:26

Normalizing the Not Normal: Vaccine Denial,...

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2025/09/06

This Week: Jeff got a letter published in EdWeek this month, challenging the publication of right wing opinion pieces that are racist, and overtly hostile to the institution of public school. This brings us to today’s topic, the rising tide of normalization of the not normal in our world of education. From the absolutely insane move in Florida to end school vaccine mandates, even referring to them as “slavery,” to yet another misguided set of responses (and here) to the latest tragic school shooting

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01:11:29

Mpls School Shooting, Ten Commandments in TX Schools,...

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2025/08/30

This Week: Here we are again. Another tragic school shooting, and the tone deaf, empty gestures of thoughts and prayers is all we’re left with from those in power. We can, and most, do better. Meanwhile, a federal judge in TX stops an obvious 1st Amendment violation which would require the 10 commandments be posted in all school classrooms (see decision). But the state attorney general instructs all schools outside of that district to proceed anyways. Here in SoCal, Beverly Hills decides to display

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