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Education Inequality Starts Outside The Classroom

December 4, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Economics, Education, History, Politics

Ohio State professor Douglas B. Downey joins us to explain why academics are approaching closing equity gaps for student achievement all wrong.

A Better Way To Spend Those Education Dollars

December 1, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Economics, Education, History

Brandon L. Wright, editorial director of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, joins us to talk about public education funding challenges and how in the aftermath of the pandemic we must find smarter ways to spend those dollars.

How The Pandemic Has Set Women Back Decades

November 13, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Economics, Education, Race/Identity

This hour, guest host Courtney Collins talks about how the pandemic has created a female recession, how disparities in who receives healthcare have widened, and how the feminist movement often leaves behind women of color.

What It Was Like To Be Mr. Rogers’ Friend

October 26, 2020 Culture, Education, Race/Identity

Tom Junod joins us to talk about an interview that turned into an unlikely, lifelong friendship with a quiet man who possessed a special power to deeply empathize with children and adults alike.

One Attorney’s Crusade Against Racism In The Law

September 28, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Education, Politics, Race/Identity

Brittany K. Barnett is an attorney who helped win executive clemency from President Obama for seven of her clients and an entrepreneur focused on social impact investing. She joins us to talk about being the daughter of an incarcerated mother, her pro bono legal work, and her resolve to challenge the status quo.

Schools Can Create Better Citizens By Returning To Civics

September 7, 2020 Education, Politics

Rebecca Winthrop, joins us to argue that, without teaching the fundamentals of how our government works, we’ll never convince people to get out the vote.

Designing For Disability Helps Everybody

August 26, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Education, Health, History

Sara Hendren teaches design for disability at Olin College of Engineering, and she joins us to talk about the idea that disability isn’t about a person, so much as the way a person must navigate an unhelpful world.

When Work From Home Meets Home School

August 21, 2020 Current Events, Education

Washington Post parenting columnist Meghan Leahy and University of Houston associate professor Samuel Brower join us to talk about the pressures of pandemic parenting and about how we can make sure young students don’t fall behind.

Can We Safely Reopen Schools?

July 15, 2020 Current Events, Education, Health

Education Week reporter Madeline Will joins us to talk about what it will take to safely welcome students back to school amid the pandemic.

The Future Of DACA

July 10, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Economics, Education, Politics, Race/Identity

In this collaboration between Think and The Texas Newsroom, we’ll explore why Congress has been unwilling to create legislation that addresses DACA, share the stories of DACA recipients as they go about their lives unable to plan for their futures, and talk to Janet Napolitano, who initiated the program as President Obama’s Homeland Security secretary.

How Universities Contribute To Inequality

June 26, 2020 Education, History

Anthony Carnevale, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, joins us to talk about how our higher education system contributes to inequality.

How We Got To ‘Sesame Street’

June 24, 2020 Culture, Education

David Kamp joins us to talk about the age of children’s television with programs about multiculturalism, literacy, and lessons in kindness — often given by a giant yellow bird.