All Episodes
Are You Kidding Me? — 118 episodes
Farewell Episode: The Good, the Bad, and Looking Ahead
Lynn Johnson on Child Welfare Priorities for the New Administration
George Borjas on Mortality Rates Among Black Infants
Catherine Pakaluk on Population Decline and the Women Choosing Large Families
Sixto Cancel on Upgrading Technology in Child Welfare
Bruce Henderson on Challenging the Conventional Wisdom about Residential Care for Foster Youth
Christine Rosen on How Technology Replaces Experiences
Savannah Nelson on Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Abuse
Carolyn D. Gorman on School-Based Mental Health Initiatives
Rafael Mangual on Civil Rights and Child Welfare
Joe Knittig on Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot
Corey DeAngelis on the Role of Parents in Advancing Educational Freedom
Scott Dziengelski on the Decline in Residential Mental Health Treatment for Youth
Sarah Font on Substance-Exposed Infants in the US
Herbie Newell on Adoption Impacts in Real Time Post Dobbs
Nicholas Zill on Kids' Mental Health
Eva Moskowitz on Raising Smart Kids
100th Episode: Rob Henderson on Luxury Beliefs
Angela Rachidi on Poverty Dynamics After Nonmarital Births
Tim Carney on Creating a More Family-Friendly Culture
Robert Pondiscio on the Science of Reading
Chris Sinacola on the Decline of Civics Education in American Schools
“We Are Not Here to Save Children”: Marie Cohen on Preventable Child Deaths in the District of Columbia
The Current State of the Child Welfare System (Recorded LIVE at FREE Forum Denver)
When Parents Do Know Best: Darla Romfo on the Viability of School Choice Programs
Mike Petrilli on Learning Loss and Accountability in Schools
Melissa Kearney on Family Structure and Reducing Poverty
Brian Conrad on Real Vs. Fake Equity in the California Math Framework
Katharine Birbalsingh on Banning Smartphones from Schools
Robert Cherry on The State of the Black Family
Maralyn Beck on How New Mexico’s Drug Crisis is Creating a Child Welfare Crisis
Brett Drake on the Truth about Racial Disparities in Child Welfare
Jon Scruggs on Prioritizing Ideology Instead of Children
Sarah Font on the Timely Permanency Report Cards
Asra Nomani on Preserving Merit in K-12 Education
Karol Markowicz on Wokeism Affecting Every Aspect of Children’s Lives
Richard Gehrman on the Institutional Failure to Protect Children
Rick Hess on ChatGPT and What Artificial Intelligence Will Mean for the Future of Classrooms
Daniel Buck on How We Are Setting Up Teachers for Failure
The Untold Truths of Kenosha
Katharine Stevens on Her New Think Tank and the Need for Better Early Childhood Policy
Matt Continetti on the Politics of Race-Based Affirmative Action
Misplaced Efforts on Racial Equity Put Children’s Lives In Danger
Whose Child Is it? Robert Pondiscio on Schools Overreaching Their Authority
Taking from the Poor and Giving to the Rich? David French on Why Student Loan Forgiveness Is Regressive and Unfair
Elizabeth Kirk on Adoption Post Dobbs
Tori Hope Petersen on Supporting Children in Foster Care
Ilana Horwitz on Religion, Education, and Social Capital
Scott Yenor on Cancel Culture and the Problems with Modern Feminism
The Fight for Education Freedom
Empowering Women Through the Choice of Adoption
To Embrace Classical Texts or to Decolonize: A Third Way Conversation with Dr. Anika Prather
Gender-Affirming Therapy and Youth Suicide: How Strong is the Evidence?
Protecting Children with Birth Match (or Violating Parent Civil Liberties?)
Rediscovering Social and Emotional Learning
Agency
Educators should stick to what they do best
How schools can better address mental health
Preserving parental roles that work
A watered-down neo-Marxism has killed the education reform movement. What needs to happen now?
A war on merit and excellence
The problem with universal pre-k
The politics of education reform
The need for a research-oriented approach to adoption
Teaching kids what they can do to be successful
Critical race to the bottom
Putting student safety first
When policies negatively affect children
A boy problem on college campuses
The need for a parent revolution?
No Way to Treat a Child
The ironies of creating “equitable” educational standards
The need to give birth fathers a voice in the adoption process
Providing foster kids with the tools—and the funds—to succeed
Helping students of all races achieve excellence
A defense of the family in the age of club sports and college admissions
Why marijuana legalization undermines “bourgeois virtues”
How to revitalize our nation’s math education
Why the Indian Child Welfare Act harms children
Why we need a child-centered approach to adoption and parenting
University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax’s defense of academic standards
Helping young adults transition from foster care to adulthood
Thomas Chatterton Williams on the importance of “unlearning” race and embracing humanism
Taking child welfare into the 21st century
Stop blaming the tests, give kids school choice
Would a child allowance help low-income children?
Mark Perry on Title IX violations and institutionalized discrimination
Is it racist to hold historically black colleges to the same academic standards as other schools?
Free speech and “woke” sensibilities in schools
The hard bigotry of San Diego’s new grading system
Can the government deny foster parent applications due to religious beliefs?
The Protestant school-to-family pipeline
How has the Opioid epidemic affected children?
Children need to be loved
Can "anti-racism" trainings be racist?
What’s race got to do with it?
Remote learning that works
How to homeschool in a pandemic
Addressing racial disparities in foster care and inspiring agency in kids
Private schools can help low-income kids, too
Lockdown learning and children’s right to read
Abolishing the SAT won’t help minorities. Neither will abolishing the police
Lockdown is more than an inconvenience for vulnerable children
Measuring adversity (and protecting kids from it)
Is universal child care universally beneficial?
Parenting 101
Creating a national summer learning program
Getting the Incentives Right
Fathers, Be Good to Your Daughters
Going Nuclear
Pandemic parenting
Moneyball for child welfare
Changing the culture of adoption
‘Musical Beds’ and the shortage of foster parents
Family structure isn’t everything — it’s the only thing
Hey, Democrats — how about some power to the parents?
Why we offer less protection to minority kids
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