Our Children Can't Wait

Joe Bishop discusses whole child education with education scholar Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond. Early in Dr. Darling-Hammond’s career, she taught at “big urban factory model high schools” and found that schools themselves are not designed for students to be successful. This set her on a path to work with educators and policymakers to redesign schools that empower students. What is the science of lear...

Joe Bishop takes a closer look into racial equity, testing in schools, and how issues play out differently in urban and rural America with educators and researchers Dr. Sonya Douglass and Anna Kushner. Dr. Douglass and Anna, in many ways, have opposite backgrounds. Dr. Douglas is the product of the fifth largest school district in the country in Las Vegas, Nevada. Anna grew up in rural Virginia. H...

Joe Bishop breaks down the politics of children and children's rights with researcher and policymaker Bruce Lesley. Growing up in a family of educators, Bruce has always been involved in child policy. He saw firsthand the importance of addressing the needs of kids and how kids are neglected in our nation’s policies. It is common that if you prompt people, they will say that they care deeply about...

Joe Bishop examines the history of the Civil Rights Movement and education with educators, policymakers and activists Arnold Fege and John Jackson. Both Chicago natives explain how the city shaped their view on policymaking. From a young age, they both were exposed to the inequities that exists based on one's zip code and the lack of resource equity between the different parts of the city and its...

Joe Bishop introduces Our Children Can't Wait podcast series about the systems and structures that keep our kids from flourishing with the help of the educator and researcher Dr. Tyrone Howard. Dr. Howard interviews Joe about his inspiration for the book and podcast. After years of observing a professional disconnect between education issues and students’ living situations and environments, Joe wa...

Our Children Can't Wait is a new podcast about the systems and structures that keep our kids from flourishing. Hosted by Dr. Joe Bishop, author of the book and Executive Director of the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools (CTS). Joe invites you to unpack these issues together with a remarkable national network of scholars and changemakers. They share solutions to a new roadmap through ho...