The Citizen Stewart Show

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

“The Citizen Stewart Show” is an independent, pull-no-punches podcast about the perils and promise of education and democracy. Hosted by Chris “Citizen” Stewart, CEO of Brightbeam, a nonprofit national network of activists fighting for educational opportunity and justice for every child. And co-hosted by Ravi Gupta, former Obama staffer and superintendent of a network of charter schools in the South. “The Citizen Stewart Show” will bring good humor and analysis to the dark forces keeping our students, schools, and democracy mired in counterproductive politics. No headline or issue is off limits, because education is at the heart of everything in America.