Why the Taliban sees girls’ education as a threat

November 17, 2022 Culture, Education, Global Issues

Onaba Payab is a former advisor to the first lady of Afghanistan. She joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how the U.S. and the international community can support women’s rights and education in Afghanistan today.

An old jail cell interior with barred up window with light rays penetrating through it reflecting on the floor.

The boy who survived a men’s prison

November 15, 2022 Education, Health, Mental Health, Race/Identity

Ian Manuel joins us to discuss his crime, his quest for forgiveness, and why, he believes, we should not judge an entire life based on one’s worst day.

The boy who survived a men’s prison

October 13, 2022 Education, Health, Mental Health, Race/Identity

Ian Manuel joins us to discuss his crime, his quest for forgiveness, and why, he believes, we should not judge an entire life based on one’s worst day.

How the heck are you supposed to pay for college?

September 28, 2022 Economics, Education

Ron Lieber, a columnist for The New York Times, talks about the complicated financial aid process and ways to tap into merit aid and similar discounts. Plus, get extra information from a bonus blog about this episode.

Why Americans are giving up on college

August 8, 2022 Culture, Education

National opinion columnist Will Bunch discusses the origins of the college dream of equal opportunity, its funding failures and how degrees are now a source of cultural division.

A teacher on what it really takes to educate children

August 3, 2022 Education

Educator Phillip Done talks about the how-tos of teaching, from extracting the best of a child academically to navigating the administrative minutia that comes with the job.

Can debating make you a better listener?

July 7, 2022 Education

Bo Seo is a two-time world champion debater and a former coach of Harvard College Debating Union. He joins guest host Courtney Collins to how debate can make you a better speaker — and listener.

Did COVID kill the SAT?

June 23, 2022 Current Events, Education, Global Issues

New Yorker contributor Eren Orbey discusses how the global pandemic shut down the testing process – and the many ways The College Board is trying to work around not only changes in test administration but pushback on the test itself.

Hakeem Oluseyi performs at the I F-ing Love Science Channel event

The Cosmologist who left the streets behind

April 25, 2022 Culture, Education, Race/Identity, Science and Technology

Hakeem Oluseyi joins host Krys Boyd to talk about his early life, when he struggled with inequality, poverty and addiction, and how he found his way out by studying the stars.

Art can open our minds to new solutions

March 28, 2022 Culture, Education

Amy E. Herman explains her method for training leaders to look to works of art to mend what’s broken in their organizations.

The power of banned books

March 3, 2022 Education, Literature

Kate Cohen considers why naming books as illicit increases demand, and why that means the written word still resonates with today’s youth.

What do we really know about spacetime?

February 16, 2022 Education, Science and Technology

Adam Becker joins us to discuss theories about the space-time continuum and why they are important if we want to achieve a much deeper understanding of how the universe works.