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All Episodes

Are You Kidding Me? — 118 episodes

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Farewell Episode: The Good, the Bad, and Looking Ahead

2

Lynn Johnson on Child Welfare Priorities for the New Administration

3

George Borjas on Mortality Rates Among Black Infants

4

Catherine Pakaluk on Population Decline and the Women Choosing Large Families

5

Sixto Cancel on Upgrading Technology in Child Welfare

6

Bruce Henderson on Challenging the Conventional Wisdom about Residential Care for Foster Youth

7

Christine Rosen on How Technology Replaces Experiences

8

Savannah Nelson on Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Abuse

9

Carolyn D. Gorman on School-Based Mental Health Initiatives

10

Rafael Mangual on Civil Rights and Child Welfare

11

Joe Knittig on Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot

12

Corey DeAngelis on the Role of Parents in Advancing Educational Freedom

13

Scott Dziengelski on the Decline in Residential Mental Health Treatment for Youth

14

Sarah Font on Substance-Exposed Infants in the US

15

Herbie Newell on Adoption Impacts in Real Time Post Dobbs

16

Nicholas Zill on Kids' Mental Health

17

Eva Moskowitz on Raising Smart Kids

18

100th Episode: Rob Henderson on Luxury Beliefs

19

Angela Rachidi on Poverty Dynamics After Nonmarital Births

20

Tim Carney on Creating a More Family-Friendly Culture

21

Robert Pondiscio on the Science of Reading

22

Chris Sinacola on the Decline of Civics Education in American Schools

23

“We Are Not Here to Save Children”: Marie Cohen on Preventable Child Deaths in the District of Columbia

24

The Current State of the Child Welfare System (Recorded LIVE at FREE Forum Denver)

25

When Parents Do Know Best: Darla Romfo on the Viability of School Choice Programs

26

Mike Petrilli on Learning Loss and Accountability in Schools

27

Melissa Kearney on Family Structure and Reducing Poverty

28

Brian Conrad on Real Vs. Fake Equity in the California Math Framework

29

Katharine Birbalsingh on Banning Smartphones from Schools

30

Robert Cherry on The State of the Black Family

31

Maralyn Beck on How New Mexico’s Drug Crisis is Creating a Child Welfare Crisis

32

Brett Drake on the Truth about Racial Disparities in Child Welfare

33

Jon Scruggs on Prioritizing Ideology Instead of Children

34

Sarah Font on the Timely Permanency Report Cards

35

Asra Nomani on Preserving Merit in K-12 Education

36

Karol Markowicz on Wokeism Affecting Every Aspect of Children’s Lives

37

Richard Gehrman on the Institutional Failure to Protect Children

38

Rick Hess on ChatGPT and What Artificial Intelligence Will Mean for the Future of Classrooms

39

Daniel Buck on How We Are Setting Up Teachers for Failure

40

The Untold Truths of Kenosha

41

Katharine Stevens on Her New Think Tank and the Need for Better Early Childhood Policy

42

Matt Continetti on the Politics of Race-Based Affirmative Action

43

Misplaced Efforts on Racial Equity Put Children’s Lives In Danger

44

Whose Child Is it? Robert Pondiscio on Schools Overreaching Their Authority

45

Taking from the Poor and Giving to the Rich? David French on Why Student Loan Forgiveness Is Regressive and Unfair

46

Elizabeth Kirk on Adoption Post Dobbs

47

Tori Hope Petersen on Supporting Children in Foster Care

48

Ilana Horwitz on Religion, Education, and Social Capital

49

Scott Yenor on Cancel Culture and the Problems with Modern Feminism

50

The Fight for Education Freedom

51

Empowering Women Through the Choice of Adoption

52

To Embrace Classical Texts or to Decolonize: A Third Way Conversation with Dr. Anika Prather

53

Gender-Affirming Therapy and Youth Suicide: How Strong is the Evidence?

54

Protecting Children with Birth Match (or Violating Parent Civil Liberties?)

55

Rediscovering Social and Emotional Learning

56

Agency

57

Educators should stick to what they do best

58

How schools can better address mental health

59

Preserving parental roles that work

60

A watered-down neo-Marxism has killed the education reform movement. What needs to happen now?

61

A war on merit and excellence

62

The problem with universal pre-k

63

The politics of education reform

64

The need for a research-oriented approach to adoption

65

Teaching kids what they can do to be successful

66

Critical race to the bottom

67

Putting student safety first

68

When policies negatively affect children

69

A boy problem on college campuses

70

The need for a parent revolution?

71

No Way to Treat a Child

72

The ironies of creating “equitable” educational standards

73

The need to give birth fathers a voice in the adoption process

74

Providing foster kids with the tools—and the funds—to succeed

75

Helping students of all races achieve excellence

76

A defense of the family in the age of club sports and college admissions

77

Why marijuana legalization undermines “bourgeois virtues”

78

How to revitalize our nation’s math education

79

Why the Indian Child Welfare Act harms children

80

Why we need a child-centered approach to adoption and parenting

81

University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax’s defense of academic standards

82

Helping young adults transition from foster care to adulthood

83

Thomas Chatterton Williams on the importance of “unlearning” race and embracing humanism

84

Taking child welfare into the 21st century

85

Stop blaming the tests, give kids school choice

86

Would a child allowance help low-income children?

87

Mark Perry on Title IX violations and institutionalized discrimination

88

Is it racist to hold historically black colleges to the same academic standards as other schools?

89

Free speech and “woke” sensibilities in schools

90

The hard bigotry of San Diego’s new grading system

91

Can the government deny foster parent applications due to religious beliefs?

92

The Protestant school-to-family pipeline

93

How has the Opioid epidemic affected children?

94

Children need to be loved

95

Can "anti-racism" trainings be racist?

96

What’s race got to do with it?

97

Remote learning that works

98

How to homeschool in a pandemic

99

Addressing racial disparities in foster care and inspiring agency in kids

100

Private schools can help low-income kids, too

101

Lockdown learning and children’s right to read

102

Abolishing the SAT won’t help minorities. Neither will abolishing the police

103

Lockdown is more than an inconvenience for vulnerable children

104

Measuring adversity (and protecting kids from it)

105

Is universal child care universally beneficial?

106

Parenting 101

107

Creating a national summer learning program

108

Getting the Incentives Right

109

Fathers, Be Good to Your Daughters

110

Going Nuclear

111

Pandemic parenting

112

Moneyball for child welfare

113

Changing the culture of adoption

114

‘Musical Beds’ and the shortage of foster parents

115

Family structure isn’t everything — it’s the only thing

116

Hey, Democrats — how about some power to the parents?

117

Why we offer less protection to minority kids

118

Welcome to: Are You Kidding Me?