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Boston College's Melodie Wyttenbach on K-12 Catholic Education
Hoover at Stanford's Peter Berkowitz on Reclaiming Liberal Education in America
Dr. Jocelyn Chadwick on Teaching Mark Twain, Huck Finn, & Jim
Worcester's Tim Murray on Massachusetts' Voc-Tech Schools
Academy Prep's Lincoln Tamayo on School Reform in Massachusetts & Florida
American Federation for Children's Patrick Graff on School Choice
Excel Academy Charter School’s Owen Stearns on Academic Quality & Bridging Gaps
Pepperdine Law's Pulitzer Winner Edward Larson on the Spirit of 1776
U-MN Law's Ilan Wurman on U.S. Constitutional Originalism
Arne Duncan on Federal Education Tax Credit Program
NYT Best-Selling Children’s Author Carole Boston Weatherford on Harriet Tubman, Jesse Owens, & Black Heroes
Florida's Julie Young on Virtual School Lessons for Age of AI
The Concord Review’s Bob Nasson on Students’ History Essays & Excellence
U-Chicago Law's Alison LaCroix on the Origins of American Federalism
NYT-Bestseller Jane Leavy on Baseball Great Sandy Koufax
Johns Hopkins' Dr. David Steiner on Academic Quality, School Choice, & Accountability
Pulitzer Winner Joseph Ellis on George Washington & American Revolution 250
Stanford's Dr. Lerone Martin on the Young MLK
Florida's Doug Tuthill on School Choice
Dr. Suzanne Marrs on Eudora Welty, Southern Fiction & Imagination
UK's Dr. Snezana Lawrence on the History of Mathematics
EdChoice's Leslie Hiner on School Choice Litigation
UK U-Sussex's Andrew Hadfield on Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, & Epic Poetry
Progressive Policy Institute's Rachel Canter on Mississippi’s Academic Gains
NYT-Best Seller Dr. Kevin Gutzman on the Jeffersonian Presidents
Florida's Julie Young on Say Yes! How Virtual Became Reality
Wash. U's Gerald Early on Play Harder: The Triumph of Black Baseball in America
Harvard Pulitzer Winner Stephen Greenblatt on Christopher Marlowe - Elizabethan Playwright & Spy
Discovery Institute's Dr. Keri Ingraham on School Choice & Edu Federalism
DFI's Jim Blew & Lynch's Katie Everett on Fed. Ed. Tax Credit in Blue States
Gijs van Hensbergen on Antoni Gaudí & the Sagrada Família
Aaron Lansky on the Yiddish Book Center & Preserving Jewish Culture
U-MI's Sarah Cohodes on Charter Public Schools & Paths to College Success
Willard Sterne Randall on Alexander Hamilton & Founding Era Political-Economy
FL State's James Shuls & Cato's Neal McCluskey on History of U.S. School Choice
Roxana Robinson on Georgia O'Keeffe, Mother of American Modernist Painting
Pulitzer Winner Gordon Wood on Benjamin Franklin & American Revolution 250
Step Up for Students' Ron Matus on Florida School Choice
Dr. Richard Phelps on Post-MCAS Assessments & Accountability in MA
IJ's David Hodges & Plaintiff Ariella Hellman on U.S. First Circuit Case, Hellman v. Mass. DESE
Emmy Winner A’Lelia Bundles on Madam C.J. Walker, First U.S. Self-Made Female Millionaire
Hedgehog Review's Jay Tolson on Walker Percy, Southern Catholic Novelist
Award-Winner Ruth Franklin on Anne Frank & Holocaust Remembrance
Stanford's Dr. Lerone Martin & NC State's Dr. Jason Miller on MLK's Dream & Langston Hughes’s Poetry
International Bestseller Dr. Jung Chang on Fly, Wild Swans & China's Despotism
Arizona's Katherine Haley on School Choice, Fed Ed, & State-led Reform
Julie Young, Julie Petersen, & Kay Johnson on Virtual Schools, Actual Learning
Florida's Erika Donalds on School Choice, Edu Federalism, & K-12 Reform
Sean Geraghty and Mike Goldstein on ADHD, Technology, & Schools
U-NM's NYT Bestseller Paul Andrew Hutton on the American Old West
Houston Supt. Mike Miles on Urban School District Reform
UK Uni. of St Andrews' Sir Hew Strachan on the First World War
MA Teacher Kelley Brown on Founding Documents, U.S. History, & Civics
Harvard’s Leo Damrosch on Robert Louis Stevenson & Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stanford's Anna Lembke, MD, on Dopamine Nation & Addiction
AZ Trinity Arch Prep's Jack Johnson Pannell on Educating Boys
U-Ark's Robert Maranto & BASIS Ed Texas' Sean Woytek on Academically Intensive Charter Schools
U-Ark's Randall Woods on John Quincy Adams - Statesman of the Early Republic
FEE's Kerry McDonald on Joyful Learning, Microschools, & Homeschooling
Dr. Gil Troy on Theodor Herzl - Father of Zionism & Combating Antisemitism
UK's Dr. Kathryn Hughes on George Eliot, Middlemarch, & Victorian Novels
Florida's John Kirtley on School Choice
NYT Bestseller Jane Leavy on Reforming Major League Baseball
BU Law's Keith Hylton on Intellectual Property, Patents, & the Law
Pepperdine Law's Pulitzer Winner Edward Larson on 100th Anniv. of Scopes Monkey Trial
Alisha Searcy on Center for Strong Public Schools
U-MD's Vincent Carretta on Phillis Wheatley Peters, Slavery, & Poetry
DFI's Jim Blew on Federal Education Tax Credit Program
UK's Dr. Juliet Barker on the Brontë Sisters & Classic Novels
Blackstone Valley's Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick on MA's Nation-Leading Voc-Techs
Stanford's Pulitzer Winner Jack Rakove on American Independence
Ian Rowe & Steven Wilson on The Lost Decade
Brandeis Uni.'s John Burt on Robert Penn Warren & All the King's Men
Shaka Mitchell on the American Federation for Children & School Choice Options
Amanda McMullen on the New Bedford Whaling Museum
Ben Moynihan & Bill Crombie on Algebra Project, Bob Moses, & Civil Rights
NYT Bestseller Jane Leavy on Babe Ruth, Baseball, & 1920s Celebrity
AUS U-Adelaide's Wilfrid Prest on Sir William Blackstone & Anglo-American Common Law
GO Tutor Corps' Michael Duffy on Charter Public Schools & High-Dosage Tutoring
Pulitzer Winner Rick Atkinson on the American Revolution's 250th Anniversary
Harvard Law's Amb. Mary Ann Glendon on In the Courts of Three Popes
Steven Wilson on The Lost Decade: Returning to the Fight for Better Schools in America (A Timely Repost)
Dr. Sheila Harrity on Worcester Tech & MA's Urban Voc-Tech Schools
Brown's Pulitzer Winner Gordon Wood on the American Revolution's 250th Anniversary
Jeffrey Meyers on F. Scott Fitzgerald & The Great Gatsby's 100th Anniversary
Hoover's Dr. James Lynn Woodworth on CREDO, NCES, & Data-Driven Policy
UK's Dr. Paula Byrne on Jane Austen's 250th Anniversary
EdChoice's Robert Enlow on School Choice
Frontier Institute's Trish Schreiber on School Choice & Charter Schools in Montana
UK Oxford's Robin Lane Fox on Homer & The Iliad
Director/Actor Samuel Lee Fudge on Marcus Garvey & Pan-Africanism
Cornell's Margaret Washington on Sojourner Truth, Abolitionism, & Women's Rights
UK Oxford & ASU's Sir Jonathan Bate on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet & Love
Steven Wilson on The Lost Decade: Returning to the Fight for Better Schools in America
U-Pitt.'s Marcus Rediker on Amistad Slave Rebellion & Black History Month
Notre Dame Law Assoc. Dean Nicole Stelle Garnett on Catholic Schools & School Choice
Alexandra Popoff on Vasily Grossman & Holocaust Remembrance
Stanford's Lerone Martin on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. & the Civil Rights Movement
ExcelinEd's Dr. Kymyona Burk on Mississippi, Early Literacy, & Reading Science
Harvard's Leo Damrosch on Alexis de Tocqueville & Democracy in America