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.
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From Drug Dealer To Harvard Debate Coach
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.
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How To Become More Open-Minded
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.
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Teach students to think for themselves
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.
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How to lie with maps
New York Times editorial board member Greg Bensinger joins us to discuss the gaps between what maps represent and real-life knowledge.
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Why Men Are Skipping College
Wall Street Journal reporter Douglas Belkin joins us to discuss the widening gap between men and women in higher education.
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Fictional Teens Vs. Real-Life Monsters
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.
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Meet The Creatures Living Above And Below Us
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.
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Being Nice Doesn’t Mean You’re Not Racist
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.
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How Will Schools Protect Students And Staff?
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.
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Segregation In Higher Ed Isn’t A Thing Of The Past
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.
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Use Your Words
This hour we’ll talk with linguist John McWhorter about how we use profanity, Anna Sale of the “Death, Sex and Money” podcast about strategies for having difficult conversations and psychologist Katherine Kinzler about how the actual sound of our voices affects how people hear what we’ve got to say.
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