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The Citizen Stewart Show
by The Branch
“The Citizen Stewart Show” is an independent, pull-no-punches podcast from The Branch 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 Kate Malekoff, president of The Branch. “The Citizen Stewart Show” shines light on 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.
Episodes
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Ep 250,000 | Goodbye - for now!
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed the Citizen Stewart Show coming to an end…for now. Follow Chris at Citizen.subtsack to see what happens next!
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Ep 141 | Ed-mageddon
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed the current crises facing education in America. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]
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Ep 140 | Can Education Commentary Survive the Attention Economy?
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed whether education commentary can survive in today’s Attention Economy. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]
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Ep 139 | The Most Radical Education Experiment in American History
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed Where the Schools Went - a brand new podcast from The Branch Media! -- Where the Schools Went: The most radical education experiment in American history, told by the people who lived it. August 2025 marks 20 years since Hurricane...
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Ep 138 | Chris Warns About “A Pandemic of Stupid”
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed… A Pandemic of Stupid (Verbatim, 7/17/25) We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]
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Ep 137 | Assessments & Accountability
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed… Support for Testing and Accountability Is Waning. Is Politics to Blame? (The 74, 7/21/25) We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]
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Ep 136 | Are Liberal Arts Degrees Future-Proof?
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate explore whether, in the era of AI, the critical thinking and adaptability fostered by a liberal arts education could become a surprising advantage. The Rise of AI Will Make Liberal Arts Degrees Popular Again. (Inc., 7/14/25) We’d love to hear...
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Ep 135 | Black Men in Education (with Dr. Charles Cole)
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris is joined by Dr. Charles Cole for a discussion about the importance of Black men in education. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]
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Ep 134 | Ed Reform Democrats
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris discusses the ways ed reform democrats could better serve students in these turbulent times. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]
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Ep 133 | Class of 2025’s Job Market
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discuss the unique job market recent graduates are entering into. From the forces AI and beyond, they explore what makes this moment in the workforce both precarious and full of possibility. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at...
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Ep 132 | Should Teachers Be Neutral in the Classroom?
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate dive into the complex challenge teachers face in maintaining political neutrality amid today's highly polarized climate. How do educators stay balanced when everything feels like a political statement? We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a...
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Ep 131 | Restorative Justice (with Nicholas Bradford)
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sat down with Nicholas Bradford for a conversation about restorative justice. Nicholas is the founder and executive director of the National Center for Restorative Justice and the author of A Real-World Guide to Restorative Justice in Schools…
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Ep 130 | Pushing Student Achievement Forward (with Tommy Chang)
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Dr. Tommy Chang, CEO of the New Teacher Center for a conversation about how we can keep pushing student achievement forward in these turbulent times. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email...
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Ep 129 | Rewriting the Impact of Racial Trauma (with Dominic Lawson)
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Dominic Lawson for a conversation about how we can rewrite the impact of racial trauma. Dominic Lawson is an award-winning producer who has made his mark in the mental health space. Dominic’s work has been recognized with numerous...
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Ep 128 | Merit Pay for Teachers
his week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed the nuances of merit pay for teachers. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]
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Ep 127 | The Rising Resistance in Education
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed the rising resistance to the President’s crusade against diversity in education. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]
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Ep 126 | Why Dual Language Programs Work (with Conor Williams)
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Conor Williams for a conversation about why dual language programs are working for ESL families, and why they are under political pressure. Conor Williams is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, and an expert on urban education...
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Ep 125 | Solving Education for America’s Black Children (with Emory Edwards)
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Emory Edwards to discuss possible pathways to solving education for America’s black children. Emory Edwards is the Vice President of Outreach at Ed Choice. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171
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Ep 124 | Social and Emotional Learning (with Dr. Michael Strambler)
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Michael Strambler for a conversation about Social and Emotional Learning. Dr. Michael Strambler is a clinical psychologist and directs Child Wellbeing and Education Research at The Consultation Center at Yale. We’d love to hear from you!...
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Ep 123 | A Special Educational Status for Black Students (with Shaka Mitchell)
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Shaka Mitchell for a conversation about possible pathways to a special educational status for black students. Shaka Mitchell serves as a Senior Fellow for the American Federation for Children. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a...
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Ep 122 | Anti Exclusionary Program Design (with Toni Barton)
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Toni Barton to discuss the lessons from her book Six Principles for Building a Truly Inclusive School. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]
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Ep 121 | An Autonomous Education for Black Children (with Kenya Bradshaw)
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Kenya Bradshaw for a conversation about reconstructing a quality education system for black children in America. Kenya Bradshaw is the CEO at Reconstruction, a curriculum technology company focused on developing and teaching K-12...
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Ep 120 | What Can Schools Do Differently?
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris is joined by a pair of education innovators to discuss the question - What can schools do differently? Our guests today: Justin Dent, Executive Director of Outschool.org Amy Anderson, Executive Director of Reschool Colorado We’d love to hear from you!...
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Ep 119 | The Voices Missing from the National Education Debate
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris is joined by Jay Artis-Wright, Charles Cole, and Sharif El-Mekki for a conversation about the voices missing from the national education debate - those of the black community. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send…
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Ep 118 | Civics & Security: The Democracy Connection
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed why the decline of civics education is a national security threat. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]
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Ep 117 | We Need a Boring Revolution in Education
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed… ‘We’re the Outliers’: Ashley Rogers Berner on Public Funding for Private Schools (The 74, 2/27/25) We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]
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Ep 116 | Barney the Dinosaur
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed Barney the Dinosaur, and Generation Barney, the podcast from NPR. Also check out... Kate with Barney in the 90s! And some additional reading The Educational Approach of Barney and Friends (PBS) Barney: 5 Best Life Lessons From The...
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Ep 115 | Gutting the Department of Education
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed the president’s gutting of the Department of Education. Is Trump Gutting Education Research a New Beginning or Just ‘Slashing & Burning’? (The 74, 2/11/25) The Data Defense: Taking Stock of How IES Funding Fuels America’s Global...
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Ep 114 | Shut Down the Department of Education?
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed... Betsy DeVos: Shut Down the Department of Education (The Free Press, 2/6/25) At Least 10 Student Loan And Federal Aid Programs Run By The Department Of Education May Be Cut (Forbes, 2/10/25) We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a...
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Ep 113 | NAEP: The National Assessment of Educational Progress (with Tim Daly)
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Tim Daly of Ed Navigator for a conversation about NAEP scores. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]
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Ep 112 | On Wicked & Core Knowledge
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed what Wicked can teach us about the importance of Core Knowledge. My Wicked Prior Knowledge (Comrade Chris, 11/30/24) We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at...
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Ep 111 | Sexism
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed how sexist attitudes change girls' trajectories. Barefoot and Pregnant (Comrade Chris, 1/8/25) We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]
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Ep 110 | Is College for Everyone?
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed… College for Some (Comrade Chris, 1/4/25) We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]
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Ep 109 | Universal School Choice Programs (with Liz Cohen)
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Future Ed policy director Liz Cohen for a conversation about universal school choice programs. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]
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Ep 108 | A 2024 Wrapup Interview with Chris
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, our producer interviews Chris to wrap up 2024. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]
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Ep 107 | 2024 Political Wrap Up (with Ravi!)
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed next steps for the Democratic party, and predictions for the next year in education. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]
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Ep 106 | Replacing Education Reform with Education Support
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed… Who’s on Board for a Child-Saving School Support Movement? (EdPost, 12/3/19) NEA Moonshots (National Education Association, 7/25/24) 7 Ways To Improve The Quality Of Education In The U.S. (Stand Together) In Defense of Public...
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Ep 105 | Faith and Public Education
This week on the Citizen Stewart show, Chris and Kate discussed the role of faith in public education. For The Love Of God: We Are Called To Support Public Schools In Every Way We Can (Comrade Chris, 11/27/24) A Religious Upbringing May Fuel Academic Success. Here’s How. (Deseret, 2/19/22) A Link...
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Ep 104 | The Great Teacher Shortage That Wasn’t
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Dan Goldhaber, Director of the Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, who challenges Chris’s assertion of a great impending teacher shortage. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or...
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Ep 103 | Project 2025
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed how Project 2025 might affect our kids and schools. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]
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Ep 102 | What Trump’s Win Means for Education in America
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed Trump’s victory, and what it all means for education in America. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]
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Ep 101 | The Need for Black and Brown Voices in Education (with Jay Artiss-Wright)
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Jay Artiss-Wright, CEO of Freedom Coalition for Charter Schools to discuss new polling about education priorities in black and latino communities. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at...
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Ep 100 | Is Miguel Cardona America’s Worst Education Secretary?
This week on the Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed The National Review’s argument that “Miguel Cardona Is America’s Worst Education Secretary.” We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]
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Ep 99 | Scaling Up Public School Choice
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed how scaling public schools can boost student performance in cities with primarily low-income populations Searching for the Tipping Point: Scaling Up Public School Choice Spurs Citywide Gains (Progressive Policy Institute, 10/10/24)...
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Ep 98 | Who is the Real Citizen Stewart?
This week on the Citizen Stewart Show, our show’s producer interviews Chris about his life, to finally figure out what made Citizen Stewart into Citizen Stewart. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]
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Ep 97 | Corey DeAngelis, “Seth Rose”, and the Weaponization of Hypocrisy
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discuss the controversy surrounding Corey DeAngelis, and how we can move the conversation back to improving our children's’ education. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at...
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Ep 96 | School Visits
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discuss their recent school visits, and the aspects of each that make them optimistic for the future of our education system. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at...
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Ep 95 | Homeschooling
This week on the Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Mike Goldstein, host of the Homeschooling Journeys podcast. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]
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Ep 94 | Unschooling
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed unschooling: a belief of self-driven informal learning characterized by a lesson-free and curriculum-free implementation of homeschooling. Unschooling: The Radical Education Trend Raising Eyebrows (The Week, 7/10/24) ‘Unschooling’ is...
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Ep 93 | Teachers Unions
This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discuss the pros and cons of teachers unions for our children, schools, and education system. Why Teacher Unions Are Good for Teachers—and the Public (American Federation of Teachers (Winter 2006-2007) How Teachers' Unions Let Kids Down…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
“The Citizen Stewart Show” is an independent, pull-no-punches podcast from The Branch 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 Kate Malekoff, president of The Branch. “The Citizen Stewart Show” shines light on 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.
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“The Citizen Stewart Show” is an independent, pull-no-punches podcast from The Branch 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...
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