The Citizen Stewart Show

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed… Race And LGBTQ Issues In K-12 Schools: What Teachers, Teens And The U.S. Public Say About Current Curriculum Debates (Pew Research Center, 2/22/24) We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171‬ Or send us an email at citizenstewartshow@thebranchmedia.org And if you’re in DC, come see Ravi debating ESAs live, thi...

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with William Horne to discuss the Great Replacement Theory and its insidious implications. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171‬ Or send us an email at citizenstewartshow@thebranchmedia.org

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Drew Perkins to discuss how America’s founding ideals influence our schools today.  We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171‬ Or send us an email at citizenstewartshow@thebranchmedia.org

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed the heated social media hearings in congress, and what it all means for our kids. Accusations, Tears And Rants: 5 Takeaways From Today’s Tech CEO Hearing (CNN, 1/31/24) A Balanced View Of Youth And Social Media (Mom Junction, 11/23/23) Florida Moves To Ban Social Media For Youth Under 16 (Axios, 1/25/24) We’d love to hear from you! Le...

Ep 64 | The Authoritarian Christian Nationalist Plan for 2025 This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed… The Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project Analysis Exposes Trumpian Project 2025 as 'Far-Right Playbook for American Authoritarianism' (Common Dreams, 11/13/23) ‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. Crusade (NYT, 1/20/24) We’d love to hear from you! Leav...

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed what the rise of Moms for Liberty has wrought for our schools.  Moms For Liberty Co-Founder Defends De Facto Book Bans With 'Graphic' Example (MSNBC, 1/19/24) Is Moms For Liberty Collapsing In Florida And The Nation? (Tampa Bay Times, 12/7/23) Moms for Liberty Launches First New York City Chapter in Queens (The 74, 10/18/23) We’d love...

This week on the Citizen Stewart show, Chris and Ravi talked about the realities of school closures and the cruelty of denying summer lunches to children in need.  Why Some States Are Opting Out of New Summer EBT Program (Chalkbeat, 1/10/24) Minnesota Schools Served 1 Million More Lunches In First Month Of Universal Free Meals (Axios, 1/10/24) Exclusive Data: Thousands of Schools at Risk of Closin...

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed Claudine Gay’s tumultuous exit from Harvard, and its wider implications for higher ed. When Free Speech and Racist Speech Collide (Inside Higher Ed, 6/22/20) As Campuses Reel, A Reminder Of The First Amendment’s Boundaries (FIRE,11/3/23) Bill Ackman’s Campaign Against Harvard Followed Years of Resentment (NYT, 12/12/23) Supremacists o...

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed their predictions about the ills and improvements for education in 2024.  We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171‬ Or send us an email at citizenstewartshow@thebranchmedia.org

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed… Gamification in Education: The Fun of Learning (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1/28/22) Dichev, C., Dicheva, D. Gamifying Education: What Is Known, What Is Believed And What Remains Uncertain: A Critical Review. Int J Educ Technol High Educ 14, 9 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-017-0042-5 Study Finds Ohio Math Scores Improved With...

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed… The Higher Education Model is Broken. Together We Can Fix It. (EdSurge, 3/31/22) Education Secretary: America’s Higher Education System Is ‘Broken’ (CSMonitor, 9/13/23) America’s Educational Superpower Is Fading (Bloomberg, 4/18/23) How to Really Fix Higher Ed (Atlantic, 5/31/22) UC Professors Push Back On Plan To Teach ‘viewpoint-Ne...

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed what happens when states take over school districts. Do State Takeovers Of School Districts Work? (Brookings, 10/24/23) Houston ISD Parents, Teachers Plea With State Board To End The Takeover (Chron, 11/16/23) — We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171‬ Or send us an email at citizenstewartshow@thebranchmedia...

This week, we have a special presentation of the Branch’s Sweat the Technique podcast. Host Stacey Shells Harvey interviews Chris about his Huffington Post piece In The American Public Education System, Black Children Are The New Cotton. — We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171‬ Or send us an email at citizenstewartshow@thebranchmedia.org

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Gary Rubinstein to understand why we teach math in schools, and how we can do it more effectively.  — We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171‬ Or send us an email at citizenstewartshow@thebranchmedia.org

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed the challenge of teaching kids about the Israel-Hamas War. For more context, check out The Lost Debate’s coverage here: An Unbiased History Of Israel-Palestine (Part 1) An Unbiased History Of Israel-Palestine (Part 2) Who is Hamas? — We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171‬ Or send us an email at citizenstew...

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Jay Artis-Wright.  Jay is the director of The Freedom Coalition for Charter Schools, an organization dedicated to promoting public charter schools and chartering to advance and protect the right of self-determination for Black and brown people. — We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171‬ Or send us an email at ci...

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Keri Rodrigues, President of the National Parents Union. – We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171‬ Or send us an email at citizenstewartshow@thebranchmedia.org

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Dr. Heather Harding, executive director the Campaign for Our Shared Future.  COSF is a non-partisan effort to support high quality K-12 education and preserve access, inclusion, and meaningful content in our schools so that every student has an opportunity to succeed and thrive.

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sat down with Cara Fitzpatrick, journalist and author of The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America. --- We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171‬ Or send us an email at citizenstewartshow@thebranchmedia.org

Chris is joined by Sweat the Technique host Stacey Shells Harvey to discuss disparities for the black community in college and beyond. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171‬ Or send us an email at citizenstewartshow@thebranchmedia.org

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with education thought leader Dr. Charles Cole III for a conversation about the importance of agency for parents and students.  We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171‬ Or send us an email at citizenstewartshow@thebranchmedia.org

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with his former Twitter rival Jennifer Berskhire, host of @HaveYouHeardPod and co-author of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door. They share a wide-ranging conversation and find common ground about the politics and practice of education.  We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171‬ Or send us an email at citizenstewartshow@th...

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed the rhetoric around and the real world implications of shutting down the Department of Education.  We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171‬ Or send us an email at citizenstewartshow@thebranchmedia.org

Chris and Ravi share their hopes, dreams, and fears for the new school year. -- We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171‬ Or send us an email at citizenstewartshow@thebranchmedia.org

This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi debated a progressive case for school choice.  The Secret History of School Choice: How Progressives Got There First (The Georgetown Law Journal, 4/1//05) The Progressive Case for K–12 Open Enrollment (EducationNext, 8/9/23) When Good Parents Go to Jail: The Criminalization of Address Sharing in Public Education (Available to All, 8/1/23) The B...