The Learning Curve
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Join The Learning Curve every Wednesday for insight and perspective on education, learning trends, school choice, and public policy. Our hosts and guests offer a mix of provocative commentary as they interview school leaders, innovators, bestselling authors, policymakers, and more. Send any suggestions, tips, and fan mail to pioneer@pioneerinstitute.org.
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Stanford's Dr. Lerone Martin & NC State's Dr. Jason Miller on MLK's Dream & Langston Hughes’s Poetry
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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International Bestseller Dr. Jung Chang on Fly, Wild Swans & China's Despotism
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Arizona's Katherine Haley on School Choice, Fed Ed, & State-led Reform
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Julie Young, Julie Petersen, & Kay Johnson on Virtual Schools, Actual Learning
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Florida's Erika Donalds on School Choice, Edu Federalism, & K-12 Reform
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Sean Geraghty and Mike Goldstein on ADHD, Technology, & Schools
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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U-NM's NYT Bestseller Paul Andrew Hutton on the American Old West
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Houston Supt. Mike Miles on Urban School District Reform
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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UK Uni. of St Andrews' Sir Hew Strachan on the First World War
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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MA Teacher Kelley Brown on Founding Documents, U.S. History, & Civics
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Harvard’s Leo Damrosch on Robert Louis Stevenson & Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Stanford's Anna Lembke, MD, on Dopamine Nation & Addiction
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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AZ Trinity Arch Prep's Jack Johnson Pannell on Educating Boys
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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U-Ark's Robert Maranto & BASIS Ed Texas' Sean Woytek on Academically Intensive Charter Schools
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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U-Ark's Randall Woods on John Quincy Adams - Statesman of the Early Republic
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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FEE's Kerry McDonald on Joyful Learning, Microschools, & Homeschooling
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Dr. Gil Troy on Theodor Herzl - Father of Zionism & Combating Antisemitism
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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UK's Dr. Kathryn Hughes on George Eliot, Middlemarch, & Victorian Novels
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Florida's John Kirtley on School Choice
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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NYT Bestseller Jane Leavy on Reforming Major League Baseball
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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BU Law's Keith Hylton on Intellectual Property, Patents, & the Law
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Pepperdine Law's Pulitzer Winner Edward Larson on 100th Anniv. of Scopes Monkey Trial
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Alisha Searcy on Center for Strong Public Schools
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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U-MD's Vincent Carretta on Phillis Wheatley Peters, Slavery, & Poetry
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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DFI's Jim Blew on Federal Education Tax Credit Program
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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UK's Dr. Juliet Barker on the Brontë Sisters & Classic Novels
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Blackstone Valley's Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick on MA's Nation-Leading Voc-Techs
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Stanford's Pulitzer Winner Jack Rakove on American Independence
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Ian Rowe & Steven Wilson on The Lost Decade
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Brandeis Uni.'s John Burt on Robert Penn Warren & All the King's Men
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Shaka Mitchell on the American Federation for Children & School Choice Options
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Amanda McMullen on the New Bedford Whaling Museum
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Ben Moynihan & Bill Crombie on Algebra Project, Bob Moses, & Civil Rights
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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NYT Bestseller Jane Leavy on Babe Ruth, Baseball, & 1920s Celebrity
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May 29, 2025 |
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AUS U-Adelaide's Wilfrid Prest on Sir William Blackstone & Anglo-American Common Law
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May 28, 2025 |
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GO Tutor Corps' Michael Duffy on Charter Public Schools & High-Dosage Tutoring
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May 21, 2025 |
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Pulitzer Winner Rick Atkinson on the American Revolution's 250th Anniversary
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May 14, 2025 |
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Harvard Law's Amb. Mary Ann Glendon on In the Courts of Three Popes
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May 07, 2025 |
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Steven Wilson on The Lost Decade: Returning to the Fight for Better Schools in America (A Timely Repost)
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Dr. Sheila Harrity on Worcester Tech & MA's Urban Voc-Tech Schools
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Brown's Pulitzer Winner Gordon Wood on the American Revolution's 250th Anniversary
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Jeffrey Meyers on F. Scott Fitzgerald & The Great Gatsby's 100th Anniversary
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Hoover's Dr. James Lynn Woodworth on CREDO, NCES, & Data-Driven Policy
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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UK's Dr. Paula Byrne on Jane Austen's 250th Anniversary
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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EdChoice's Robert Enlow on School Choice
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Frontier Institute's Trish Schreiber on School Choice & Charter Schools in Montana
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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UK Oxford's Robin Lane Fox on Homer & The Iliad
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Director/Actor Samuel Lee Fudge on Marcus Garvey & Pan-Africanism
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Cornell's Margaret Washington on Sojourner Truth, Abolitionism, & Women's Rights
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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UK Oxford & ASU's Sir Jonathan Bate on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet & Love
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Steven Wilson on The Lost Decade: Returning to the Fight for Better Schools in America
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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U-Pitt.'s Marcus Rediker on Amistad Slave Rebellion & Black History Month
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Notre Dame Law Assoc. Dean Nicole Stelle Garnett on Catholic Schools & School Choice
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Alexandra Popoff on Vasily Grossman & Holocaust Remembrance
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Stanford's Lerone Martin on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. & the Civil Rights Movement
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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ExcelinEd's Dr. Kymyona Burk on Mississippi, Early Literacy, & Reading Science
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Harvard's Leo Damrosch on Alexis de Tocqueville & Democracy in America
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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UK’s John Suchet, OBE, on Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker, & Ballets
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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U-OK’s Dan Hamlin on Emerging School Models & Learning Loss
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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NYT #1 Bestseller Dava Sobel on Marie Curie & Women in Science
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Becket Fund’s Eric Rassbach on Loffman v. CA DOE, Religious Liberty, & Schooling
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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CUNY’s Carl Rollyson on William Faulkner & Southern Literature
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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NH Gov. Chris Sununu on School Choice
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Dr. Helen Baxendale on Great Hearts Classical Liberal Arts Charter Schools
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Jeffrey Meyers on Edgar Allan Poe, Gothic Horror, & Halloween
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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U-TX at SA's Catherine Clinton on Harriet Tubman & the Underground Railroad
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Award-Winner Tom Segev on Israel’s Founding Father, David Ben-Gurion
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Lynch Foundation’s Katie Everett on School Finance Model for Catholic Schools & School Choice
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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MA Teacher James Conway & High School Grad Ela Gardiner on MCAS Testing
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Edward Achorn on Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, & Slavery
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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PRI’s Lance Izumi on The Great Classroom Collapse
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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AFC’s Denisha Allen on School Choice & Black Minds Matter
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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UK’s Prof. Richard Holmes on Coleridge, the Ancient Mariner, & Poetry
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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NYT’s Anupreeta Das on Bill Gates, Microsoft, & Tech Billionaires
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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National Alliance’s Starlee Coleman on Public Charter Schools
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Houston Supt. Mike Miles & Urban School Reform
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Dr. David Heidler on Andrew Jackson & American Democracy
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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MIT’s Nobel Winner Joshua Angrist on the Economics of Education & Charter Public Schools
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Stanford’s Arnold Rampersad on Jackie Robinson
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Pulitzer Winner Kai Bird on Robert Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Georgetown’s Dr. Marguerite Roza on Federal ESSER Funds & the Fiscal Cliff
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Harlow Giles Unger on Patrick Henry & American Liberty
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Prof. Joel Richard Paul on Daniel Webster, U.S. Senate, & “Liberty and Union”
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Steven Wilson on Charter Public Schools
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Sheldon Novick on Henry James, American Women, & Gilded-Age Fiction
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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USAF Academy’s Jeanne Heidler on Henry Clay & Congressional Statesmanship
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Israeli Harvard Student Maya Shiloni on Campus Antisemitism
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May 29, 2024 |
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Kimberly Steadman of Edward Brooke on Boston's Charter School Sector
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May 22, 2024 |
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Cheryl Brown Henderson on the 70th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
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May 15, 2024 |
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POLITICO’s Peter Canellos on Justice John Marshall Harlan & Plessy v. Ferguson
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May 08, 2024 |
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Colonel Peter Hayden on U.S. Cyber Command & National Security
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May 01, 2024 |
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Hoover at Stanford’s Stephen Kotkin on Stalin’s Tyranny, WWII, & the Cold War
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Johns Hopkins’ Ashley Berner on Educational Pluralism & Democracy
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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39th U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky for National Poetry Month
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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U.S. Chamber Foundation’s Hilary Crow on K-12 Civics Education
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Tacitus, Roman Emperors, & Despotism with UCLA’s Ronald Mellor
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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METCO’s Proven Results with Tufts Prof. Elizabeth Setren
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Pulitzer Winner Joan Hedrick on Harriet Beecher Stowe & Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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The Calculus Project & STEM with Dr. Adrian Mims
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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J. Edgar Hoover & the FBI with Yale's Pulitzer Winner Beverly Gage
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Mexico’s Cartels & Drug Trade with UK U-Warwick’s Benjamin Smith
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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MCAS & Teacher Strikes with DFER-MA’s Mary Tamer
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Booker T. Washington & Voc-Tech with U-TN’s Robert Norrell
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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TIMSS & K-12 Global STEM with BC’s Dr. Matthias von Davier
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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National School Choice Week with ExcelinEd’s Dr. Cara Candal
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Reclaiming the Radical MLK with Jonathan Eig
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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Olympic Track Medalist Gabby Thomas
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Two Time Pulitzer Winner T.J. Stiles on Cornelius Vanderbilt & American Business
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Smith College's Carol Zaleski on The Lord of the Rings & Narnia
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Emily Hanford on Reading Science & K-12 Literacy
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Golda Meir's Leadership and the State of Israel
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Hillsdale’s Dr. Kathleen O’Toole on K-12 Classical Education
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Nina Rees on Charter Public Schools in America
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Harvard Prof. Leo Damrosch on Jonathan Swift & Gulliver’s Travels
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Vanderbilt’s Dr. Carol Swain on U.S. History, Race, & 1776 Unites
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Leslie Klinger on Sherlock Holmes, Horror Stories, & Halloween
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Pioneer’s U.S. History & Civics Book with Chris Sinacola
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Prof. Jeff Broadwater on George Mason, Federalism, & the Bill of Rights
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty on School Reform
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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UCLA’s Professor James Stigler on Teaching & Learning Math
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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UK’s Laura Thompson on Agatha Christie, Queen of Crime Mystery
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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John Steele Gordon on America's Economic Rise
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Dr. Ramachandra Guha on Gandhi's Enduring Legacy
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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On Chicago, School Reform, and Teachers' Unions
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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U-Ark. Prof. Albert Cheng on Classical Education & School Choice
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Jay Parini on Thirteen Books That Changed America
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Colossal Academy’s Shiren Rattigan on Microschools & School Choice
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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UK Cambridge’s Prof. David Abulafia on Oceans, Seas, & Global Trade
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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NAS's Dr. Peter Wood on Diversity and Anger in America
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Manisha Sinha on the History of Abolition
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Pulitzer Winner Tamara Payne on the Life and Legacy of Malcolm X
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Dr. David Steiner on Teaching Wisdom in Schools
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Samuel Adams & American Independence
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Cara and Gerard's Final Show as Cohosts
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Becket Fund’s Eric Rassbach on Religious Liberty & American Schooling
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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PRI’s Lance Izumi on Charter Schools & School Choice
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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McGill Prof. Marc Raboy on Marconi & Global Communications
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Donald Graham on The Washington Post, Media, and Educating Immigrants
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May 31, 2023 |
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Columbia Law’s Philip Hamburger on Church, State, & School Choice
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May 24, 2023 |
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AEI's Dr. Diana Schaub on the Founders, Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, & Civics
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May 17, 2023 |
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Morehouse’s Prof. Marisela Martinez-Cola on Pre-Brown Cases for Educational Equality
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May 10, 2023 |
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Marquette’s Dr. Howard Fuller on School Choice, Charter Schools, and Race
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May 03, 2023 |
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Columbia's Pulitzer Winner Prof. Eric Foner on Lincoln, Slavery, & Reconstruction
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Dr. Carey Wright on Mississippi's K-12 NAEP Gains
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Prof. Frank Dikötter on China: Mao's Tyranny to Rising Superpower
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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U-Texas Prof. Lorraine Pangle on the Founding Fathers, Education, and Civics
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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UK’s Robert McCrum on P.G. Wodehouse, ‘Jeeves & Wooster,’ and April Fools’ Day
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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Ashley Soifer and Microschooling
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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UVA Prof. Dan Willingham on Learning Science & K-12 Schooling
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Lessons from Shakespeare: Julius Caesar for the Ages
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Lauren Redniss on Marie Curie, STEM, & Women's History
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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A Daughter's Memoir of B.U.'s Dr. John Silber
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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OECD’s Andreas Schleicher on PISA & K-12 Global Education
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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India Unbound: Gurcharan Das on the Rise of India
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Dr. Deborah Plant on Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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George Weigel Discusses Pope St. John Paul II for National Catholic Schools Week
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Award-Winning UK Author and Filmmaker Laurence Rees on the Holocaust, Auschwitz, and Remembrance
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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D.C.’s Kevin Chavous on National School Choice Week
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Pulitzer Winner Prof. David Garrow on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Independent Institute’s Dr. Richard Vedder on Higher Education, Skyrocketing Tuitions, & the Student Debt Crisis
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Columbia's Prof. Roosevelt Montás on the Great Books & a Liberal Arts Education
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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UK’s Prof. Michael Slater on Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, and A Christmas Carol
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Senegal’s Magatte Wade on Education & Economic Freedom in Africa
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Former U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos on Edu Federalism & School Choice
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Award Winner Peter Cozzens on Tecumseh, the Indian Wars & the American West
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Award-Winner Nathaniel Philbrick on the Mayflower and the First Thanksgiving
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Georgia’s Alisha Thomas Searcy on School Choice, Teacher Unions, & Elections
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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KaiPod Learning’s Amar Kumar on Homeschooling Pods & Blended Education
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Stanford’s Pulitzer-Winning Prof. Jack Rakove on James Madison, The Federalist Papers, & U.S. Constitutionalism
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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UK's Miranda Seymour on Mary Shelley and Frankenstein for Halloween
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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UCLA’s Dr. Maryanne Wolf on Reading, Brain Science, & the Digital Age
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Jeff Wetzler, Co-founder of Transcend, on Innovation in School Design
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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NYT Best Seller Laurence Bergreen on 530th Anniversary of Christopher Columbus Discovering the New World
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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NACSA's Dr. Karega Rausch on Charter Public School Authorizing
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Khan Academy's Sal Khan & ASU Prep Digital's Amy McGrath on the Khan World School @ ASU Prep
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Hoover at Stanford’s Dr. Niall Ferguson on Britain, the English-Speaking World, & the Politics of Catastrophe
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Independent Institute’s Dr. Bill Evers & Ze’ev Wurman on K-12 STEM Education & California’s Woke Math
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Oxford’s Prof. Timothy Garton Ash on Poland’s Solidarity, Lech Walesa, & Cold War Lessons for Ukraine
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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UVA’s Prof. Angel Adams Parham on Classical Education, Black Intellectuals, & Homeschooling
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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UVA’s Two-Time Pulitzer Winner Prof. Alan Taylor on Thomas Jefferson & Education
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Doug Lemov on Teach Like a Champion & Successful Charter Public Schools
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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William & Mary’s Dr. Charles Hobson on Chief Justice John Marshall, SCOTUS, & Judicial Review
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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METCO’s Milly Arbaje-Thomas & Researcher Roger Hatch on MA’s Voluntary School Desegregation Program
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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NYU Law Prof. Richard Epstein on the Founders’ Constitution & Federalism
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Engaged Detroit Founder Bernita Bradley on Homeschooling, Urban Education, & Parent-Driven Reforms
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Jean Strouse on J.P. Morgan & the Rise of American Finance
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Mt. Holyoke’s Pulitzer-Winning Prof. Joseph Ellis on John Adams & American Independence
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Lead Plaintiff David Carson & IJ Attorney Arif Panju on Landmark SCOTUS Decision Carson v. Makin
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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AEI’s Robert Pondiscio on E.D. Hirsch, Civic Education, & Charter Public Schools
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Hoover at Stanford’s Dr. Macke Raymond on the Current State of K-12 Education Reform
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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David Ferreira & Chris Sinacola on MA’s Nation-Leading Voc-Tech Schools
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Smith College Prof. Paula Giddings on Ida B. Wells and Her Anti-Lynching Crusade
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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WV State Sen. Patricia Puertas Rucker on Universal School Choice
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May 25, 2022 |
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Columbia’s Prof. Nicholas Lemann on the Great Migration, the SAT, & Meritocracy
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May 18, 2022 |
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Harvard Law Prof. Cass Sunstein on "The World According to Star Wars"
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May 11, 2022 |
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Hoover at Stanford’s Dr. Eric Hanushek on NAEP, PISA, & International Comparisons in Education
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May 04, 2022 |
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Harvard Mathematician Prof. Wilfried Schmid on K-12 Standards & Results
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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UC-Berkeley Prof. Robert Alter on the Hebrew Bible’s Wide Literary Influence
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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AFC’s Denisha Merriweather on School Choice Advocacy & Black Minds Matter
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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UVA Law Prof. G. Edward White on Law, Race, & the U.S. Supreme Court in American History
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Yale’s Pulitzer-Winning Prof. John Lewis Gaddis on Cold War Lessons for Russia’s Hot War in Ukraine
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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NYU's Dr. Arthur Levine on Higher Education's Future & Improving K-12 Teacher Preparation
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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UK’s Charles Moore on Lady Margaret Thatcher & Cold War Leadership
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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EdChoice’s VP Leslie Hiner on Landmark SCOTUS Decisions for School Choice
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Linda Chavez on Hispanic Immigration, Assimilation, & Civic Education in America
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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ESPN Senior Writer Howard Bryant on Race in Boston & American Sports
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Emory Uni. Prof. Mark Bauerlein on “The Dumbest Generation” & the Digital Age
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Parent Advocate Virginia Walden Ford on Civil Rights, School Choice, & the D.C. Voucher Program
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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U of SC Prof. Jennifer Frey on National Catholic Schools Week & Flannery O’Connor's Fiction
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Andrew Campanella on National School Choice Week
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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AEI’s Ian Rowe on School Leadership, Civic Education, & Upward Mobility
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Stanford’s Prof. Clayborne Carson on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Civil Rights Vision & Legacy
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Journalist Bari Weiss on Fighting Anti-Semitism & the Cancel Culture
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Institute for Justice’s Michael Bindas on the SCOTUS Oral Arguments in Carson v. Makin
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Dr. Marc Seifer on Nikola Tesla, Pioneer of the Modern Electrical Age
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Urban Institute’s Dr. Matthew Chingos on the Year of School Choice & the Student Loan Debt Crisis
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Author Nicholas Basbanes on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow & the Spirit of American Poetry
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Rutgers Prof. Paul Israel on Thomas Edison, Inventions, & American Patents
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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RespectAbility’s Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi on Empowering People with Disabilities
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Lipan Apache Tribe’s Pastor Robert Soto on Native American Heritage Month & Religious Liberty
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Dr. Bror Saxberg on Learning Science & School Reform
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Award-Winner Prof. David Reynolds on Abraham Lincoln & American Civil War Culture
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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CRPE's Robin Lake on COVID School Closures & Learning Loss
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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Prof. Raymond Arsenault on the 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Rides & Civil Rights
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Match Charter Public School Founder Mike Goldstein on School & Teacher Prep Reform
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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ASU’s Julie Young, Virtual Schooling Pioneer, on Digital Learning during COVID-19
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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UChicago’s Dr. Leon Kass on Genesis, Exodus, & Reading Great Books
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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NYT Best Seller Dr. Kate Clifford Larson on Fannie Lou Hamer & the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Valhalla Foundation's Nancy Poon Lue on STEM Access & Equity
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Yale’s Pulitzer-Winning Prof. David Blight on Frederick Douglass, Slavery, & Emancipation
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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UVA Prof. E.D. Hirsch, Jr. on Core Knowledge, Equity, & Educating Citizens
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Human Rights Advocate Kristina Arriaga on Cuba, Religious Liberty, & Cancel Culture
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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The Institute for Justice’s Michael Bindas on the SCOTUS, Carson v. Makin, & Expanding School Choice
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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Civil Rights Leader Bob Woodson on 1776 Unites & Race in America
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Mariam Memarsadeghi on Freeing Iran, Civic Ed, & Immigrant Portraits
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Independent Institute’s Dr. Morgan Hunter on Teaching Greco-Roman History to High Schoolers
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Aurora Institute’s Susan Patrick on Digital Learning Lessons from COVID-19
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Prof. David Hackett Fischer on Paul Revere, George Washington, & American Independence
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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AEI’s Naomi Schaefer Riley on Parenting, Excessive Screen Time, & Religion in American Education
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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New York Times Best Seller Paul Reid on Winston Churchill, WWII, & the Cold War
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Nina Rees on the 30th Anniversary of Charter Public Schools in America
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Blended Learning Expert Heather Staker on Student-Centered Lessons During COVID-19
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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BU’s Dr. Farouk El-Baz on NASA’s Moon Landing, Remote Sensing, & STEM
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May 26, 2021 |
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Rafe Esquith on Teaching Shakespeare to Inner-City LA Students
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May 19, 2021 |
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Law Prof. Melvin Urofsky on Justice Louis Brandeis, the SCOTUS, & Dissenting Opinions
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May 12, 2021 |
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Heritage Foundation’s Jonathan Butcher on Edu Federalism, School Choice, & Learning Pods
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May 05, 2021 |
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Georgetown’s Dr. Marguerite Roza on K-12 School Finance, Spending, & Results
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Stanford’s National Humanities Medal Winner Prof. Arnold Rampersad on Langston Hughes & Ralph Ellison
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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The Washington Post’s Jay Mathews on An Optimist's Guide to American Public Education
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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BBC Classics Prof. Bettany Hughes on Athenian Democracy, Socrates, & the Goddess Aphrodite
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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Dartmouth’s Prof. Susannah Heschel Discusses Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel & the Civil Rights Movement
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Hoover Institution’s Dr. Eric Hanushek on COVID-19, K-12 Learning Loss, & Economic Impact
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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UK Classics Scholar Kathryn Tempest on Cicero, Brutus & the Death of Caesar
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Best-Selling, Netflix Author Loung Ung On Surviving Pol Pot’s Killing Fields
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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American Federation for Children’s Tommy Schultz on School Choice & Edu Federalism
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali, International Best-Selling Author & Human Rights Activist
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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WSJ Drama Editor Terry Teachout on Jazz Greats Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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UGA Prof. Valerie Boyd on Zora Neale Hurston, the Harlem Renaissance, & Black History Month
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Boston Catholic Schools Supt. Tom Carroll on National Catholic Schools Week
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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AZ Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick on National School Choice Week
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Pulitzer Winner Taylor Branch on MLK, Civil Rights History, & Race in America
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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Ignat Solzhenitsyn on His Father’s Nobel Prize-Winning Fight with Communism
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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Eva Moskowitz of Success Academy on Charter Schools, Achievement Gaps, & COVID-19 Learning Loss
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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USED Asst. Sec. Jim Blew Talks Sec. DeVos, School Choice, & K-12 Politics
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Oxford & UCLA Pulitzer Winner Prof. Daniel Walker Howe on Horace Mann, Common Schools, & Educating for Democracy
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Stanford’s Prof. Caroline Hoxby on Charter Schools, K-12 Ed Reform, & Global Competitiveness
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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SABIS® President Carl Bistany on International Education, Charter Public Schools, & At-Risk Students
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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UConn’s Prof. Wayne Franklin on James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, & American Democracy
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Wall Street Journal Columnist Jason Riley on the 2020 Election, School Choice, & Race in America
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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Nationally Recognized Author Tara Ross on the Importance of the Electoral College
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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Pulitzer-Winning Author Stacy Schiff on the Salem Witch Trials
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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LSU’s Prof. Andrew Burstein on Washington Irving, the Headless Horseman, & the Presidency
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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NCTQ’s Kate Walsh on the Crisis in K-12 Teacher Prep, Quality, & Evaluation
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Cheryl Brown Henderson, Daughter of Lead Plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Ed., on Race & Schooling
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Harvard PEPG’s Prof. Paul Peterson on Charter Schools, Digital Learning, & Ed Next Polling
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Award-Winning Writer Brenda Wineapple On the 170th Anniv. of The Scarlet Letter & Pres. Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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International Best-Seller Dr. Jung Chang On Wild Swans, Mao’s Tyranny, & Modern China
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Kelly Smith, Prenda CEO, on Microschooling & the Future of K-12 Learning
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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U-Ark Prof. Jay Greene & EdChoice’s Jason Bedrick on Yeshivas vs. New York & Religious Liberty
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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Michelle Rhee, Former Chancellor, D.C. Public Schools, on Leading Urban District Reform & the COVID-19 Moment
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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Award-Winning Author Devery Anderson on the 65th Anniversary of the Murder of Emmett Till
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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Christensen Institute's Julia Freeland Fisher on K-12 Disruptive Innovation, Professional Networks, & Social Mobility
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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President of D.C.’s AppleTree Institute, Jack McCarthy on Charter Schools & Fall Reopening
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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"Call Me Ishmael" Melville Scholar Prof. Hershel Parker on Moby-Dick & Classic Literature
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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NYT #1 Best-Selling Science Author, Dava Sobel on Copernicus, Galileo’s Daughter, & Astronomy
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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Widow of Civil Rights Icon, Dr. Sephira Shuttlesworth on Desegregating Schools & Racial Equity
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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WSJ Children's Book Critic & Author, Meghan Cox Gurdon on Reading Aloud to Children in the Age of Distraction
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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Boston Uni.’s Dr. Charles Glenn on School Choice, Civil Rights, & Espinoza
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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Brown Uni.’s Pulitzer-Winning Prof. Gordon Wood on American Independence & the Founding Fathers
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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Lead Plaintiff Kendra Espinoza & IJ’s Attorney Erica Smith on Landmark SCOTUS School Choice Decision
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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U-Arkansas Prof. Patrick Wolf on School Choice, Espinoza, & Students’ Civic Prep
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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Pulitzer Winner Diane McWhorter on Civil Rights History & Race in America
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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NYT Best-Selling Children’s Author Carole Boston Weatherford on Fannie Lou Hamer & Race in America
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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MA Commissioner Jeff Riley on Remote Learning, Voc-Techs, & Reforming Boston’s Schools
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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Acclaimed Poet & Former NEA Chairman Dana Gioia on Poetry & Arts Education
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May 29, 2020 |
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Homeschooling Expert Kerry McDonald on Harvard Law Professor Controversy & COVID
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May 22, 2020 |
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Kaya Henderson, Former Chancellor, D.C. Public Schools, on Leading Urban District Reform
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May 15, 2020 |
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UVA Law Professor Kimberly Robinson On Legal Debate About Education As Federal Right
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May 08, 2020 |
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New York Times #1 best-selling author John M. Barry on the 1918 Influenza Pandemic & lessons for COVID-19
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May 01, 2020 |
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Ashley Berner of Johns Hopkins on Academic Quality, Educational Pluralism, & the Providence Public Schools
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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Christensen Institute Co-founder Michael Horn on Digital Learning & COVID-19
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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The Institute for Justice's Tim Keller on Espinoza v. Montana DOR & ongoing school choice litigation
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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Stanford Pulitzer Winner David Kennedy on Lessons for COVID-19 from the 1918 Flu Epidemic & Great Depression
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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The Washington Post’s Jay Mathews on schooling during COVID-19 & lessons from teaching great Jaime Escalante
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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Ambassador Ray Flynn on Public Leadership During Global Crisis & the Case for Catholic Schools
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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NC State's Anna Egalite on School Choice in America & Abroad
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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Kevin Chavous on the Promise & Potential of Quality School Choice Options
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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Citizen Stewart on Changing the K-12 Education Power Structure
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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CREDO’s Macke Raymond on Charter Schools’ Quality & Growth
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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Cato's Neal McCluskey on School Choice & Educational Federalism
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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Julie Young, Virtual Schooling Pioneer
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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Susan Wise Bauer on Classical Education & Homeschooling
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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Dick Komer on Espinoza v. Montana & the Bigoted Legacy of Blaine Amendments
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Jan 24, 2020 |
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Derrell Bradford on the Future of Education Reform
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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Montse Alvarado on Protecting Religious Liberty in Schools & Society
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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Lance Izumi on How Charters Are Meeting Diverse Learning Needs
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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Will Fitzhugh on the Enduring Relevance of History Research & Writing
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Dec 20, 2019 |
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Joy Pullmann on the Fallout from Common Core
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Dec 13, 2019 |
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E.D. Hirsch, Jr. on Background Knowledge & Educational Equity
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Dec 06, 2019 |
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Steven Wilson on Anti-Intellectualism in K-12 Education
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Nov 22, 2019 |
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Jason Bedrick on Religious Freedom and Private School Autonomy
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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Dr. Lindsey Burke on LBJ’s True Education Legacy
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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NH Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut on State-Driven K-12 Reform
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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Andrew Campanella, President of National School Choice Week
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Oct 25, 2019 |
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Dr. Howard Fuller on School Choice & Presidential Politics
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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Wilfred McClay on his new book, Land of Hope
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Oct 11, 2019 |
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Natalie Wexler on her new book, The Knowledge Gap
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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Max Eden, Education Researcher, on School Policies & Mass Shootings
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Sep 27, 2019 |
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Nina Rees, National Charter Leader, on Education Policy & the 2020 Election
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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Charter Approval in CA, Online Learning in OK, Outsourcing Teachers?, SCOTUS School Choice Case, NYT on Success Academy
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Sep 12, 2019 |
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Introducing The Learning Curve: Student Discipline, Teacher Diversity, School-to-Prison Pipeline, Presidential Politics & School Choice
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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Learning Curve
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Aug 23, 2019 |