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Are You Kidding Me?

Are You Kidding Me?

35 episodes

Sometimes the very strategies meant to help children have the opposite effect. Join AEI’s Naomi Schaefer Riley and Ian Rowe as they look behind the headlines at the public policies and cultural agendas driving child welfare and education. Rowe and Riley bring to light practices that will make you ask, “Are you kidding me?”

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

Published: Dec. 27, 2023, 5:45 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 32 seconds

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

Published: Dec. 13, 2023, 5:45 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 23 seconds

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Mike Petrilli on Learning Loss and Accountability in Schools

Published: Nov. 29, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 49 seconds

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Melissa Kearney on Family Structure and Reducing Poverty

Published: Nov. 15, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 1 second

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

Published: Nov. 1, 2023, 8:24 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Katharine Birbalsingh on Banning Smartphones from Schools

Published: Oct. 18, 2023, 3:34 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 38 seconds

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Robert Cherry on The State of the Black Family

Published: July 26, 2023, 8:37 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 59 seconds

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Maralyn Beck on How New Mexicos Drug Crisis is Creating a Child Welfare Crisis

Published: July 12, 2023, 8:28 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 9 seconds

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Brett Drake on the Truth about Racial Disparities in Child Welfare

Published: June 28, 2023, 8:19 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 33 seconds

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Jon Scruggs on Prioritizing Ideology Instead of Children

Published: May 3, 2023, 8:15 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 54 seconds

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Sarah Font on the Timely Permanency Report Cards

Published: April 19, 2023, 8:27 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 28 seconds

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Asra Nomani on Preserving Merit in K-12 Education

Published: April 5, 2023, 8:20 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 58 seconds

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Karol Markowicz on Wokeism Affecting Every Aspect of Childrens Lives

Published: March 22, 2023, 8:28 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 37 seconds

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Richard Gehrman on the Institutional Failure to Protect Children

Published: March 8, 2023, 8:29 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 45 seconds

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

Published: Feb. 22, 2023, 8:21 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 26 seconds

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Daniel Buck on How We Are Setting Up Teachers for Failure

Published: Feb. 8, 2023, 8:35 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 14 seconds

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The Untold Truths of Kenosha

Published: Jan. 25, 2023, 8:01 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 59 seconds

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

Published: Jan. 11, 2023, 7:54 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 21 seconds

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Matt Continetti on the Politics of Race-Based Affirmative Action

Published: Dec. 21, 2022, 3:39 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 5 seconds

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Misplaced Efforts on Racial Equity Put Childrens Lives In Danger

Published: Dec. 8, 2022, 7:44 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 3 seconds

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

Published: Nov. 18, 2022, 2:20 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 10 seconds

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

Published: Oct. 26, 2022, 7:43 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 38 seconds

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Elizabeth Kirk on Adoption Post Dobbs

Published: Oct. 12, 2022, 8:18 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 46 seconds

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Tori Hope Petersen on Supporting Children in Foster Care

Published: Sept. 28, 2022, 8:21 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 10 seconds

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Ilana Horwitz on Religion, Education, and Social Capital

Published: Sept. 14, 2022, 8:12 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 7 seconds

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Scott Yenor on Cancel Culture and the Problems with Modern Feminism

Published: Aug. 31, 2022, 8:18 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 1 second

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The Fight for Education Freedom

Published: Aug. 17, 2022, 8:21 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 30 seconds

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Empowering Women Through the Choice of Adoption

Published: Aug. 3, 2022, 8:41 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 5 seconds

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

Published: July 21, 2022, 2:30 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 44 seconds

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

Published: July 6, 2022, 8:22 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 18 seconds

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

Published: June 22, 2022, 7:58 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 44 seconds

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Rediscovering Social and Emotional Learning

Published: June 8, 2022, 8:25 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 2 seconds

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Agency

Published: May 11, 2022, 8:39 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 48 seconds

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Educators should stick to what they do best

Published: May 5, 2022, 1:43 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 44 seconds

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How schools can better address mental health

Published: April 13, 2022, 8:21 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 42 seconds

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Preserving parental roles that work

Published: March 30, 2022, 8:36 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 32 seconds

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

Published: March 17, 2022, 6:40 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 44 seconds

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A war on merit and excellence

Published: March 3, 2022, 3:44 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 36 seconds

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The problem with universal pre-k

Published: Feb. 16, 2022, 8:06 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 4 seconds

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The politics of education reform

Published: Feb. 2, 2022, 8:09 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 35 seconds

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The need for a research-oriented approach to adoption

Published: Jan. 19, 2022, 8:23 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 6 seconds

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Teaching kids what they can do to be successful

Published: Jan. 5, 2022, 8:16 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 10 seconds

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Critical race to the bottom

Published: Dec. 15, 2021, 8:41 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 34 seconds

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Putting student safety first

Published: Dec. 1, 2021, 8:15 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 16 seconds

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When policies negatively affect children

Published: Nov. 10, 2021, 8:19 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 44 seconds

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A boy problem on college campuses

Published: Oct. 27, 2021, 8:15 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 6 seconds

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The need for a parent revolution?

Published: Oct. 13, 2021, 8:21 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 34 seconds

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No Way to Treat a Child

Published: Sept. 29, 2021, 8:50 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 52 seconds

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The ironies of creating equitable educational standards

Published: Sept. 15, 2021, 8:11 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 22 seconds

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

Published: Sept. 1, 2021, 8:15 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 14 seconds

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Providing foster kids with the toolsand the fundsto succeed

Published: Aug. 18, 2021, 8:21 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 56 seconds

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Helping students of all races achieve excellence

Published: Aug. 4, 2021, 8:27 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 20 seconds

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

Published: July 21, 2021, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 12 seconds

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Why marijuana legalization undermines bourgeois virtues

Published: July 7, 2021, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 53 seconds

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How to revitalize our nations math education

Published: June 23, 2021, 8:35 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 54 seconds

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Why the Indian Child Welfare Act harms children

Published: June 9, 2021, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 2 seconds

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

Published: May 26, 2021, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 38 seconds

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University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Waxs defense of academic standards

Published: May 12, 2021, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 20 seconds

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Helping young adults transition from foster care to adulthood

Published: April 21, 2021, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 42 seconds

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

Published: April 7, 2021, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 16 seconds

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Taking child welfare into the 21st century

Published: March 24, 2021, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 34 seconds

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Stop blaming the tests, give kids school choice

Published: March 10, 2021, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 6 seconds

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Would a child allowance help low-income children?

Published: Feb. 24, 2021, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 44 seconds

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Mark Perry on Title IX violations and institutionalized discrimination

Published: Feb. 10, 2021, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 10 seconds

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

Published: Jan. 27, 2021, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 24 seconds

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Free speech and woke sensibilities in schools

Published: Jan. 13, 2021, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 2 seconds

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The hard bigotry of San Diegos new grading system

Published: Dec. 23, 2020, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 12 seconds

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

Published: Dec. 9, 2020, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 30 seconds

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The Protestant school-to-family pipeline

Published: Nov. 25, 2020, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 34 seconds

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How has the Opioid epidemic affected children?

Published: Nov. 11, 2020, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 38 seconds

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Children need to be loved

Published: Oct. 28, 2020, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 56 seconds

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Can "anti-racism" trainings be racist?

Published: Oct. 14, 2020, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 8 seconds

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Whats race got to do with it?

Published: Sept. 23, 2020, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 10 seconds

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Remote learning that works

Published: Sept. 10, 2020, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 4 seconds

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How to homeschool in a pandemic

Published: Aug. 27, 2020, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 48 seconds

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Addressing racial disparities in foster care and inspiring agency in kids

Published: Aug. 13, 2020, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 40 seconds

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Private schools can help low-income kids, too

Published: July 23, 2020, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 48 seconds

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Lockdown learning and childrens right to read

Published: July 9, 2020, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 28 seconds

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Abolishing the SAT wont help minorities. Neither will abolishing the police

Published: June 25, 2020, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 14 seconds

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Lockdown is more than an inconvenience for vulnerable children

Published: June 12, 2020, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 16 seconds

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Measuring adversity (and protecting kids from it)

Published: June 10, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 40 seconds

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Is universal child care universally beneficial?

Published: May 28, 2020, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 46 seconds

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Parenting 101

Published: May 14, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 24 seconds

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Creating a national summer learning program

Published: May 7, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 12 seconds

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Getting the Incentives Right

Published: May 6, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 48 seconds

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Fathers, Be Good to Your Daughters

Published: May 5, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 46 seconds

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Going Nuclear

Published: May 5, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 56 seconds

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Pandemic parenting

Published: May 4, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes

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Moneyball for child welfare

Published: May 4, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 40 seconds

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Changing the culture of adoption

Published: May 3, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 48 seconds

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Musical Beds and the shortage of foster parents

Published: May 3, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 52 seconds

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Family structure isnt everything its the only thing

Published: May 2, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 14 seconds

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Hey, Democrats how about some power to the parents?

Published: May 2, 2020, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 4 seconds

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Why we offer less protection to minority kids

Published: May 1, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 50 seconds

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Welcome to: Are You Kidding Me?

Published: May 1, 2020, 12:39 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 8 seconds

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