Episode 12 · Season II · S2.E1 · Feb 21, 2026
Knowledge, Power, and the U.S. Demographic Pivot
The classroom has changed — has education? For the first time in U.S. history, children under 18 are the majority non-white. Season 2 opens with the question: who decides what counts as knowledge?
“The classroom has changed. The question is whether education has.”
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