This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed…

What’s making them mad:

• Ex-NYU Admin Siphoned $3.5m In Grants And Blew Cash On Herself — Including An $80k Pool: Prosecutors (New York Post, 12/19/22)

What’s making them think: 

• Chicago Public Schools Spent $308 Million On Technology Since March 2020. Now What? (Chalkbeat, 12/13/22)

And a new segment: Ravi’s Radical Ideas™

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed…

What’s making them mad:

• A Fast-Growing Network of Conservative Groups Is Fueling a Surge in Book Bans (NYT, 12/12/22)

And what’s making them think: 

• American Family Policy Is Holding Schools Back (Atlantic, 9/28/22)

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed…

What’s making them mad: Our Schools’ Looming Fiscal Cliff

• Fiscal Cliff Could Force Layoffs of the Best Teachers (Education Next, 12/6/22)

What’s making them think: Trouble at Teach for America

• As Pandemic Complicates Recruitment, Teach For America’s Incoming Class Expected To Hit A 15-Year Low (Chalkbeat, 3/8/22)

 What’s making them hopeful: A PA School Making Education a Family Affair

• A Unique Philadelphia School Cultivates Family Members As Staffers (Chalkbeat, 12/8/22)

And don’t forget to email us or leave us a voicemail!

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed…

What’s making them mad: Broken Sped

• Public Schools Are NYC’s Main Youth Mental Health System. Where Kids Land Often Depends on What Their Parents Can Pay (ProPublica, 11/17/22)

What’s making them think: AARP for Parents

• Parents Need Their Own AARP (Atlantic, 11/18/22)

And what’s making them hopeful: Supercharged Tutoring

• $10 Million For 31 Groups Working to Make Tutoring More Available & Affordable (The 74, 11/22/22)

And don’t forget to email us or leave us a voicemail!

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed…

What’s making them mad: Bribery in Michigan

• Former President of the Madison District Public Schools Board of Education and a Local Contractor Charged in $560,000 Bribery Scheme (DOJ, 7/14/22)

What’s making them think: Activism in Public Education

• Public Education Is Drifting From Its Founding Ideals And Public Purpose (Fordham Institute, 11/17/22)

What’s making them hopeful: Charter Schools Gaining Students in NYC

• As New York City Schools Face a Crisis, Charter Schools Gain Students (NYT, 11/21/22)

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed…

What’s making them mad: Corruption in Stockton

• Incompetence Or Corruption At Stockton Unified; It’s Got To Be One Or The Other (Stocktonia, 6/22/22)

• Possible Financial Catastrophe: Grand Jury Details Stockton Unified School District's Money Mismanagement (NBC, 6/17/22)

What’s making them think: The Math Backlash Cycle

• How Math Became an Object of the Culture Wars (New Yorker, 11/15/22)

• The $1.1 Billion Math Solution? Gates Foundation Makes Math Its Top K-12 Priority (The 74, 10/19/22)

And what’s making them hopeful: Upending Traditional Subject Structure

• Rethinking High School: Upending Traditional Subject Structure in Indiana (The 74, 11/15/22)

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi debated…

What’s making them hopeful:

• Turnout for Young People Was the Second Highest Its Been in the Past 30 Years (NPR, 11/10/22)

• The School-Choice Election Wave (Wall Street Journal, 11/10/22)

• GOP School Boards: How Republicans Fared in School Board Elections All Over the Country (USA Today, 11/9/22)

What’s making them think: 

• This School Took Away Smartphones. The Kids Don’t Mind. (Wall Street Journal, 11/5/22)

• Take Away Their Cell Phones (Education Next)

Then discussed what’s making them mad:

• Why Aren’t We Talking About Eugenics in School Assessments? (Learning Equity Center)

• Why the Academic Achievement Gap is a Racist Idea (Black Perspectives, 10/20/16)

• The Racist Beginnings of Standardized Testing (NEA, 3/20/21)

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed...

What's making them mad:

What's making them hopeful:

What's making them think:

• Why Randi Weingarten Supports Harvard’s Discrimination (WSJ, 10/30/22)

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed…

What’s making them angry:

Abbott Elementary misrepresenting charter schools in “Wrong Delivery” (9/28/22)

Charter Schools Get Better Results with Less Money Than Government‐Run Schools (Cato Institute, 10/10/19)

There Are Just 90 LGBTQ School Board Members. Half Were Threatened, Harassed (The 74, 10/25/22) 

‘Unsafe, Unwelcoming’: LGBTQ Students Report Facing Hostility at School (Chalkbeat, 10/25/22)

What’s making them hopeful: 

Mississippi Ranks No. 1 in Nation for Score Gains on National Assessment of Educational Progress (MSAchieves, 10/30/19)

And what’s making them think: 

School Closures Were a Failed Policy (The Atlantic, 10/26/22)

In the premiere episode of The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed…

What’s making them angry: abuse in schools and its aftermath

What’s making them hopeful: the success of Chinese immersion schools in the Bay Area

• Why Oakland Parents Are Flocking to a Chinese-Immersion School (The New Yorker, 10/18/22)

What’s making them think: balancing the outcomes of equity and success in our schools

• Why It’s Time to Talk About Equity and Excellence (Ed Post, 9/28/22)

Preview for next week's show: Abbott Elementary and the charter school debate