“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.
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed…
TFA downsizing:
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And some inside baseball: how ed reform has its own bureaucracy
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed…
Some listener mail about a proposal for a county-wide school board,
and the difficulties parents face accessing special education for their children.
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This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed…
An article from a listener:
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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…
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This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed…
A Unique Philadelphia School Cultivates Family Members As Staffers (Chalkbeat, 12/8/22)
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This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed…
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Parents need their own AARP (Atlantic, 11/18/22)
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This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed…
What’s making them mad:
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:
Public Education Is Drifting From Its Founding Ideals And Public Purpose (Fordham Institute, 11/17/22)
What’s making them hopeful:
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)
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)
This School Took Away Smartphones. The Kids Don’t Mind. (Wall Street Journal, 11/5/22)
Take Away Their Cell Phones (Education Next)
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…
Youngkin’s Education Tip Line Gripes: ‘Beowulf,’ Masks and ‘Grooming’ (Washington Post, 11/3/22)
How Education Culture Wars Have Shaped the Midterms (Vox, 11/4/22)
Student ‘Peace Warriors’ at Chicago’s West Side Schools Spread Message of Nonviolence (Chalkbeat, 11/3/22)
Kids Were Fighting in School. Dads Began Patrolling Campus, and the Violence Stopped (Washington Post, 10/28/21)
Why Randi Weingarten Supports Harvard’s Discrimination (WSJ, 10/30/22)
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed…
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)
Mississippi Ranks No. 1 in Nation for Score Gains on National Assessment of Educational Progress (MSAchieves, 10/30/19)
School Closures Were a Failed Policy (The Atlantic, 10/26/22)
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