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August 14, 2023
What ‘Earth Mama’ Doesn’t Tell Us About Foster Care
…is not true of “Earth Mama,” a recently released film by first-time director Savanah Leaf. The story is about a pregnant woman, Gia, whose two children are in the foster…
August 12, 2023
Why Ending Child Services Is the New Defund the Police
…and neglect and three times as likely to die from maltreatment as their white peers. If anything, the notion that child welfare is structurally racist has become an article of…
August 3, 2023
Philanthropists Discover the Value of “Sunsetting”
…that its hostility to capitalism had thrown it off course: “Perhaps it is time for the trustees and staff to examine the question of our obligations to our economic system…
July 25, 2023
What Relationship Outsourcing Says About Our Culture
How many of our relationships can we outsource? Apparently, there’s no end. A recent article in The New York Times describes a new kind of professional, a “surrogate partner,” who…
July 17, 2023
The Problem with Lived Experience
…be ignored and are not irrelevant in policymaking. Policies are made all the time based on rare events—New York City has window guard policies to prevent children from falling out…
July 16, 2023
When Office Perks Become Perils
…work. It’s the rest of our lives. We do not value time as much as we value money. The young people he interviews who end up taking time off from…
July 15, 2023
Yonkers’ Only Charter School Illustrates Just How Broken the System Is
…about $26,800 per student, CSEE spends only $16,800. Still, when it came time to add a high school, the New York State Board of Regents told the administration that they…
July 8, 2023
Why the End of Affirmative Action Is Good for Black Science Students
…that overall UC graduation rates improved among black and Hispanic kids. (Perhaps that’s why a much-discussed New York Times story from this past weekend looking at the use of “adversity scores”…
July 3, 2023
Child Welfare’s Ideological Enforcer
…on social media, where he spends his time attacking rigorous academic research, encouraging social media mobs to insult others in the field, and even demanding that journals stop publishing work…
June 20, 2023
Down Through the Ages
…happiness between higher-income and lower-income white Americans in the 1970s, but by the 2010s, “five times as many whites in the lowest fifth for income were unhappy compared to those…