{"podcast":{"title":"Growing Up In America: The Way It Is","slug":"growing-up-in-america-the-way-it-is-6419419","podcast_index_feed_id":6419419,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/growingupinamerica/feed.xml","website_url":"https://childrenatrisk.org/","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/growingupinamerica/20251029_051005_f6b6876ce66bafd6a70177f0e5c0c8aa.png","author":"Dr. Robert Sanborn","episode_count":162,"summary":"Growing Up in America is a production of Children at Risk: The Voice of Texas’ Children, a non-profit organization dedicated to research, public policy, law and collaborative action on behalf of Texas’ Youth. Each episode, we aim to fill these same 60 minutes with lively discussion on the children of Texas with experts on the quality of life for our children.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T00:21:13.717821+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growing-up-in-america-the-way-it-is-6419419"},"episode":{"title":"New Season of Growing Up in America!","slug":"new-season-of-growing-up-in-america","published_at":"2026-01-07T17:22:45+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growing-up-in-america-the-way-it-is-6419419/new-season-of-growing-up-in-america","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growing-up-in-america-the-way-it-is-6419419","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/growingupinamerica/2437052","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/193875/2437052/growingupinamerica/2026_01_07_17_22_19_5ec10494-b7b7-47af-811d-405d22904f2a.mp3","summary":"Immigration policy, public education, and childcare stability take center stage this week on Growing Up in America: The Way It Is . Hosts Dr. Bob Sanborn (CHILDREN AT RISK) and Holly Durham (Texas A+ Challenge, CHILDREN AT RISK) start off the new year with a conversation on how Texas laws, education systems, and early childhood infrastructure are shaping the lives of children and families across the state. This episode features Krystal Gomez , Managing Attorney at the Texas Immigration Legal Council, Senior education reporter Megan Menchaca of The Houston Chronicle and Lyn Lucas , Assistant Director of Early Childhood Education at CHILDREN AT RISK. Plus, tune in for Hip Speak with our guest Gen Z culture expert Anya Osundwa !","meta_description":"Immigration policy, public education, and childcare stability take center stage this week on Growing Up in America: The Way It Is . Hosts Dr. Bob Sanborn…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3434,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/growing-up-in-america-the-way-it-is-6419419/episodes/new-season-of-growing-up-in-america/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growing-up-in-america-the-way-it-is-6419419/new-season-of-growing-up-in-america.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}