The education conversation with experience
What helps kids learn, think and thrive?
Former teacher and veteran Philadelphia talk host Dom Giordano brings old-school wisdom, new-school debate and next-school ideas to the questions shaping our children’s future.
“Honor the past. Build the future.”
Latest episode
Back to School: Dom Challenges the NEA
Dom Giordano in his Back to School special dares the NEA to follow through on their threat to have teachers and students march on Washington against the Trump Administration to influence the midterms.
The premise
Education isn’t one argument. It’s every decision that shapes how a child understands the world.
We examine what traditional education got right, what today’s systems must improve and what families should demand next.
School choice remains essential—but so are reading, history, civics, technology, screen time, teachers, parents and the culture surrounding learning.
Explore the questions
More than school choice
Schools & Teachers
Standards, classrooms, unions, learning loss and what still works.
02Parents & Families
Rights, responsibilities and the practical choices families face.
03Technology & Kids
Screens, social media, AI and the struggle for attention.
04School Choice
Who decides, who benefits and why access matters.
Teacher → Broadcaster → Education advocateMeet your host
Dom never really left the classroom.
Before talk radio, Dom Giordano taught elementary and high school students across Philadelphia and South Jersey. His innovative approach to teaching made him a sought-after education commentator—and ultimately led to a broadcasting career that has lasted nearly four decades.
This podcast brings that journey full circle: a teacher’s insistence on results, a broadcaster’s appetite for argument and a parent’s conviction that children deserve better.
Dom’s story