Segment from School Days Listener Call 2 Peter, Ed, Brian take another listener call. Rewind 15 seconds Play Fast-forward 15 seconds 00:00:00 / 00:00:00 Mute See Share options All segments from School Days Space Odyssey The hosts discuss how the Space Race with the USSR increased pressure on the United States to improve its public education system, and take a look at how the idea of educating the masses developed in this country. 00:07:31 Hometown Hero The Backstory hosts speak with the former chairperson of the Charlottesville City School Board, Alicia Lugo (who died earlier this year), about her experiences attending Charlottesville’s all-black high school in the 1960s. 00:08:14 Read All Over Brian talks with historian and journalist Jonathan Zimmerman about Americans’ romance with the image of the little red schoolhouse, and Peter, Ed, and Brian then reflect on this idea as it relates to different geographic sections of the country. 00:08:00 Listener Call 1 Peter, Ed, and Brian take a call from a listener. 00:02:58 Current segment Listener Call 2 Peter, Ed, Brian take another listener call. 00:03:28 Little Red Schoolhouse Education historian John Zimmerman tells 20th Century Guy Brian Balogh why Americans romanticize the one-room schoolhouse, and what they were really like. 00:09:29