The pressure to act happy when your child has special needs

February 9, 2022 Education, Health, Mental Health

Heather Lanier joins us to discuss the personal struggles she faces parenting her daughter, a child with a very rare genetic disorder, while navigating a world that expects parents to raise high-achieving children.

Why day care centers are on the verge of collapse

December 8, 2021 Current Events, Economics, Education

Bloomberg Businessweek columnist Claire Suddath explains why daycare centers struggle with staffing and profit margins, and why, despite the demand, the industry is struggling to survive.

From Drug Dealer To Harvard Debate Coach

November 5, 2021 Education, Mental Health, Race/Identity

Brandon P. Fleming joins us to discuss his childhood surrounded by poverty and crime, his dreams shattered by injury, and his ultimate redemption, which he found in teaching himself and others to be express themselves.

How To Become More Open-Minded

October 22, 2021 Culture, Education

Wharton School organizational psychologist Adam Grant joins us to talk about how sometimes growth comes through unlearning ideas we’ve always thought to be true.

School classroom with school desks and blackboard

Teach students to think for themselves

October 19, 2021 Education, Think

José Antonio Bowen talks about why he believes education doesn’t do enough to foster independent thinking and why he’d rewrite the 3 R’s to relationships, resilience and reflection.

How to lie with maps

October 6, 2021 Culture, Education, Environment, Science and Technology, Think

New York Times editorial board member Greg Bensinger joins us to discuss the gaps between what maps represent and real-life knowledge.

Why Men Are Skipping College

September 29, 2021 Education, Think

Wall Street Journal reporter Douglas Belkin joins us to discuss the widening gap between men and women in higher education.

Fictional Teens Vs. Real-Life Monsters

September 22, 2021 Education, History, Literature, Race/Identity

Author and educator Liza Wiemer joins us to talk about her YA novel featuring students who must use Nazi propaganda in a debate, the courage it takes for two teenagers to confront anti-Semitism, and the real-life examples the author drew from.

Meet The Creatures Living Above And Below Us

September 17, 2021 Culture, Education, Environment, Science and Technology

Two pioneering female scientists speak with us: one who describes life in the tops of trees as an eighth continent, and an oceanographer who studies bioluminescent marine animals that light up the ocean floor.

A High School Student Holding Up A Sign That Says "I Am Privileged And It's Wrong."

Being Nice Doesn’t Mean You’re Not Racist

August 20, 2021 Culture, Education, Race/Identity

Robin DiAngelo is an academic, lecturer, and author and has been a consultant and trainer on issues of racial and social justice for more than 20 years. She joins us to discuss how white progressives often downplay systemic racism.

A visitor wears a protective mask during a visit to the Texas Capitol.

How Will Schools Protect Students And Staff?

August 18, 2021 Current Events, Education, Politics

Michael Hinojosa is superintendent of the Dallas Independent School District, and he joins us to talk about defying the governor’s orders by directing that masks be worn at schools – and about how schools are addressing the issues of learning loss by shutting down last school year.

Segregation In Higher Ed Isn’t A Thing Of The Past

August 12, 2021 Culture, Economics, Education, History, Literature, Politics, Race/Identity

Adam Harris, a staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us to discuss why Black students have always been an afterthought in higher education, the legacy that has created and the road toward reckoning with this discrimination.