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The Learning Curve — 366 episodes
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
UK’s John Suchet, OBE, on Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker, & Ballets
U-OK’s Dan Hamlin on Emerging School Models & Learning Loss
NYT #1 Bestseller Dava Sobel on Marie Curie & Women in Science
Becket Fund’s Eric Rassbach on Loffman v. CA DOE, Religious Liberty, & Schooling
CUNY’s Carl Rollyson on William Faulkner & Southern Literature
NH Gov. Chris Sununu on School Choice
Dr. Helen Baxendale on Great Hearts Classical Liberal Arts Charter Schools
Jeffrey Meyers on Edgar Allan Poe, Gothic Horror, & Halloween
U-TX at SA's Catherine Clinton on Harriet Tubman & the Underground Railroad
Award-Winner Tom Segev on Israel’s Founding Father, David Ben-Gurion
Lynch Foundation’s Katie Everett on School Finance Model for Catholic Schools & School Choice
MA Teacher James Conway & High School Grad Ela Gardiner on MCAS Testing
Edward Achorn on Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, & Slavery
PRI’s Lance Izumi on The Great Classroom Collapse
AFC’s Denisha Allen on School Choice & Black Minds Matter
UK’s Prof. Richard Holmes on Coleridge, the Ancient Mariner, & Poetry
NYT’s Anupreeta Das on Bill Gates, Microsoft, & Tech Billionaires
National Alliance’s Starlee Coleman on Public Charter Schools
Houston Supt. Mike Miles & Urban School Reform
Dr. David Heidler on Andrew Jackson & American Democracy
MIT’s Nobel Winner Joshua Angrist on the Economics of Education & Charter Public Schools
Stanford’s Arnold Rampersad on Jackie Robinson
Pulitzer Winner Kai Bird on Robert Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb
Georgetown’s Dr. Marguerite Roza on Federal ESSER Funds & the Fiscal Cliff
Harlow Giles Unger on Patrick Henry & American Liberty
Prof. Joel Richard Paul on Daniel Webster, U.S. Senate, & “Liberty and Union”
Steven Wilson on Charter Public Schools
Sheldon Novick on Henry James, American Women, & Gilded-Age Fiction
USAF Academy’s Jeanne Heidler on Henry Clay & Congressional Statesmanship
Israeli Harvard Student Maya Shiloni on Campus Antisemitism
Kimberly Steadman of Edward Brooke on Boston's Charter School Sector
Cheryl Brown Henderson on the 70th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
POLITICO’s Peter Canellos on Justice John Marshall Harlan & Plessy v. Ferguson
Colonel Peter Hayden on U.S. Cyber Command & National Security
Hoover at Stanford’s Stephen Kotkin on Stalin’s Tyranny, WWII, & the Cold War
Johns Hopkins’ Ashley Berner on Educational Pluralism & Democracy
39th U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky for National Poetry Month
U.S. Chamber Foundation’s Hilary Crow on K-12 Civics Education
Tacitus, Roman Emperors, & Despotism with UCLA’s Ronald Mellor
METCO’s Proven Results with Tufts Prof. Elizabeth Setren
Pulitzer Winner Joan Hedrick on Harriet Beecher Stowe & Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Calculus Project & STEM with Dr. Adrian Mims
J. Edgar Hoover & the FBI with Yale's Pulitzer Winner Beverly Gage
Mexico’s Cartels & Drug Trade with UK U-Warwick’s Benjamin Smith
MCAS & Teacher Strikes with DFER-MA’s Mary Tamer
Booker T. Washington & Voc-Tech with U-TN’s Robert Norrell
TIMSS & K-12 Global STEM with BC’s Dr. Matthias von Davier
National School Choice Week with ExcelinEd’s Dr. Cara Candal
Reclaiming the Radical MLK with Jonathan Eig
Olympic Track Medalist Gabby Thomas
Two Time Pulitzer Winner T.J. Stiles on Cornelius Vanderbilt & American Business
Smith College's Carol Zaleski on The Lord of the Rings & Narnia
Emily Hanford on Reading Science & K-12 Literacy
Golda Meir's Leadership and the State of Israel
Hillsdale’s Dr. Kathleen O’Toole on K-12 Classical Education
Nina Rees on Charter Public Schools in America
Harvard Prof. Leo Damrosch on Jonathan Swift & Gulliver’s Travels
Vanderbilt’s Dr. Carol Swain on U.S. History, Race, & 1776 Unites
Leslie Klinger on Sherlock Holmes, Horror Stories, & Halloween
Pioneer’s U.S. History & Civics Book with Chris Sinacola
Prof. Jeff Broadwater on George Mason, Federalism, & the Bill of Rights
Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty on School Reform
UCLA’s Professor James Stigler on Teaching & Learning Math
UK’s Laura Thompson on Agatha Christie, Queen of Crime Mystery
John Steele Gordon on America's Economic Rise
Dr. Ramachandra Guha on Gandhi's Enduring Legacy
On Chicago, School Reform, and Teachers' Unions
U-Ark. Prof. Albert Cheng on Classical Education & School Choice
Jay Parini on Thirteen Books That Changed America
Colossal Academy’s Shiren Rattigan on Microschools & School Choice
UK Cambridge’s Prof. David Abulafia on Oceans, Seas, & Global Trade
NAS's Dr. Peter Wood on Diversity and Anger in America
Manisha Sinha on the History of Abolition
Pulitzer Winner Tamara Payne on the Life and Legacy of Malcolm X
Dr. David Steiner on Teaching Wisdom in Schools
Samuel Adams & American Independence
Cara and Gerard's Final Show as Cohosts
Becket Fund’s Eric Rassbach on Religious Liberty & American Schooling
PRI’s Lance Izumi on Charter Schools & School Choice
McGill Prof. Marc Raboy on Marconi & Global Communications
Donald Graham on The Washington Post, Media, and Educating Immigrants
Columbia Law’s Philip Hamburger on Church, State, & School Choice
AEI's Dr. Diana Schaub on the Founders, Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, & Civics
Morehouse’s Prof. Marisela Martinez-Cola on Pre-Brown Cases for Educational Equality
Marquette’s Dr. Howard Fuller on School Choice, Charter Schools, and Race
Columbia's Pulitzer Winner Prof. Eric Foner on Lincoln, Slavery, & Reconstruction
Dr. Carey Wright on Mississippi's K-12 NAEP Gains
Prof. Frank Dikötter on China: Mao's Tyranny to Rising Superpower
U-Texas Prof. Lorraine Pangle on the Founding Fathers, Education, and Civics
UK’s Robert McCrum on P.G. Wodehouse, ‘Jeeves & Wooster,’ and April Fools’ Day
Ashley Soifer and Microschooling
UVA Prof. Dan Willingham on Learning Science & K-12 Schooling
Lessons from Shakespeare: Julius Caesar for the Ages
Lauren Redniss on Marie Curie, STEM, & Women's History
A Daughter's Memoir of B.U.'s Dr. John Silber
OECD’s Andreas Schleicher on PISA & K-12 Global Education
India Unbound: Gurcharan Das on the Rise of India
Dr. Deborah Plant on Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
George Weigel Discusses Pope St. John Paul II for National Catholic Schools Week
Award-Winning UK Author and Filmmaker Laurence Rees on the Holocaust, Auschwitz, and Remembrance
D.C.’s Kevin Chavous on National School Choice Week
Pulitzer Winner Prof. David Garrow on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
Independent Institute’s Dr. Richard Vedder on Higher Education, Skyrocketing Tuitions, & the Student Debt Crisis
Columbia's Prof. Roosevelt Montás on the Great Books & a Liberal Arts Education
UK’s Prof. Michael Slater on Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, and A Christmas Carol
Senegal’s Magatte Wade on Education & Economic Freedom in Africa
Former U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos on Edu Federalism & School Choice
Award Winner Peter Cozzens on Tecumseh, the Indian Wars & the American West
Award-Winner Nathaniel Philbrick on the Mayflower and the First Thanksgiving
Georgia’s Alisha Thomas Searcy on School Choice, Teacher Unions, & Elections
KaiPod Learning’s Amar Kumar on Homeschooling Pods & Blended Education
Stanford’s Pulitzer-Winning Prof. Jack Rakove on James Madison, The Federalist Papers, & U.S. Constitutionalism
UK's Miranda Seymour on Mary Shelley and Frankenstein for Halloween
UCLA’s Dr. Maryanne Wolf on Reading, Brain Science, & the Digital Age
Jeff Wetzler, Co-founder of Transcend, on Innovation in School Design
NYT Best Seller Laurence Bergreen on 530th Anniversary of Christopher Columbus Discovering the New World
NACSA's Dr. Karega Rausch on Charter Public School Authorizing
Khan Academy's Sal Khan & ASU Prep Digital's Amy McGrath on the Khan World School @ ASU Prep
Hoover at Stanford’s Dr. Niall Ferguson on Britain, the English-Speaking World, & the Politics of Catastrophe
Independent Institute’s Dr. Bill Evers & Ze’ev Wurman on K-12 STEM Education & California’s Woke Math
Oxford’s Prof. Timothy Garton Ash on Poland’s Solidarity, Lech Walesa, & Cold War Lessons for Ukraine
UVA’s Prof. Angel Adams Parham on Classical Education, Black Intellectuals, & Homeschooling
UVA’s Two-Time Pulitzer Winner Prof. Alan Taylor on Thomas Jefferson & Education
Doug Lemov on Teach Like a Champion & Successful Charter Public Schools
William & Mary’s Dr. Charles Hobson on Chief Justice John Marshall, SCOTUS, & Judicial Review
METCO’s Milly Arbaje-Thomas & Researcher Roger Hatch on MA’s Voluntary School Desegregation Program
NYU Law Prof. Richard Epstein on the Founders’ Constitution & Federalism
Engaged Detroit Founder Bernita Bradley on Homeschooling, Urban Education, & Parent-Driven Reforms
Jean Strouse on J.P. Morgan & the Rise of American Finance
Mt. Holyoke’s Pulitzer-Winning Prof. Joseph Ellis on John Adams & American Independence
Lead Plaintiff David Carson & IJ Attorney Arif Panju on Landmark SCOTUS Decision Carson v. Makin
AEI’s Robert Pondiscio on E.D. Hirsch, Civic Education, & Charter Public Schools
Hoover at Stanford’s Dr. Macke Raymond on the Current State of K-12 Education Reform
David Ferreira & Chris Sinacola on MA’s Nation-Leading Voc-Tech Schools
Smith College Prof. Paula Giddings on Ida B. Wells and Her Anti-Lynching Crusade
WV State Sen. Patricia Puertas Rucker on Universal School Choice
Columbia’s Prof. Nicholas Lemann on the Great Migration, the SAT, & Meritocracy
Harvard Law Prof. Cass Sunstein on "The World According to Star Wars"
Hoover at Stanford’s Dr. Eric Hanushek on NAEP, PISA, & International Comparisons in Education
Harvard Mathematician Prof. Wilfried Schmid on K-12 Standards & Results
UC-Berkeley Prof. Robert Alter on the Hebrew Bible’s Wide Literary Influence
AFC’s Denisha Merriweather on School Choice Advocacy & Black Minds Matter
UVA Law Prof. G. Edward White on Law, Race, & the U.S. Supreme Court in American History
Yale’s Pulitzer-Winning Prof. John Lewis Gaddis on Cold War Lessons for Russia’s Hot War in Ukraine
NYU's Dr. Arthur Levine on Higher Education's Future & Improving K-12 Teacher Preparation
UK’s Charles Moore on Lady Margaret Thatcher & Cold War Leadership
EdChoice’s VP Leslie Hiner on Landmark SCOTUS Decisions for School Choice
Linda Chavez on Hispanic Immigration, Assimilation, & Civic Education in America
ESPN Senior Writer Howard Bryant on Race in Boston & American Sports
Emory Uni. Prof. Mark Bauerlein on “The Dumbest Generation” & the Digital Age
Parent Advocate Virginia Walden Ford on Civil Rights, School Choice, & the D.C. Voucher Program
U of SC Prof. Jennifer Frey on National Catholic Schools Week & Flannery O’Connor's Fiction
Andrew Campanella on National School Choice Week
AEI’s Ian Rowe on School Leadership, Civic Education, & Upward Mobility
Stanford’s Prof. Clayborne Carson on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Civil Rights Vision & Legacy
Journalist Bari Weiss on Fighting Anti-Semitism & the Cancel Culture
Institute for Justice’s Michael Bindas on the SCOTUS Oral Arguments in Carson v. Makin
Dr. Marc Seifer on Nikola Tesla, Pioneer of the Modern Electrical Age
Urban Institute’s Dr. Matthew Chingos on the Year of School Choice & the Student Loan Debt Crisis
Author Nicholas Basbanes on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow & the Spirit of American Poetry
Rutgers Prof. Paul Israel on Thomas Edison, Inventions, & American Patents
RespectAbility’s Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi on Empowering People with Disabilities
Lipan Apache Tribe’s Pastor Robert Soto on Native American Heritage Month & Religious Liberty
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Dr. Bror Saxberg on Learning Science & School Reform
Award-Winner Prof. David Reynolds on Abraham Lincoln & American Civil War Culture
CRPE's Robin Lake on COVID School Closures & Learning Loss
Prof. Raymond Arsenault on the 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Rides & Civil Rights
Match Charter Public School Founder Mike Goldstein on School & Teacher Prep Reform
ASU’s Julie Young, Virtual Schooling Pioneer, on Digital Learning during COVID-19
UChicago’s Dr. Leon Kass on Genesis, Exodus, & Reading Great Books
NYT Best Seller Dr. Kate Clifford Larson on Fannie Lou Hamer & the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
Valhalla Foundation's Nancy Poon Lue on STEM Access & Equity
Yale’s Pulitzer-Winning Prof. David Blight on Frederick Douglass, Slavery, & Emancipation
UVA Prof. E.D. Hirsch, Jr. on Core Knowledge, Equity, & Educating Citizens
Human Rights Advocate Kristina Arriaga on Cuba, Religious Liberty, & Cancel Culture
The Institute for Justice’s Michael Bindas on the SCOTUS, Carson v. Makin, & Expanding School Choice
Civil Rights Leader Bob Woodson on 1776 Unites & Race in America
Mariam Memarsadeghi on Freeing Iran, Civic Ed, & Immigrant Portraits
Independent Institute’s Dr. Morgan Hunter on Teaching Greco-Roman History to High Schoolers
Aurora Institute’s Susan Patrick on Digital Learning Lessons from COVID-19
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Prof. David Hackett Fischer on Paul Revere, George Washington, & American Independence
AEI’s Naomi Schaefer Riley on Parenting, Excessive Screen Time, & Religion in American Education
New York Times Best Seller Paul Reid on Winston Churchill, WWII, & the Cold War
Nina Rees on the 30th Anniversary of Charter Public Schools in America
Blended Learning Expert Heather Staker on Student-Centered Lessons During COVID-19
BU’s Dr. Farouk El-Baz on NASA’s Moon Landing, Remote Sensing, & STEM
Rafe Esquith on Teaching Shakespeare to Inner-City LA Students
Law Prof. Melvin Urofsky on Justice Louis Brandeis, the SCOTUS, & Dissenting Opinions
Heritage Foundation’s Jonathan Butcher on Edu Federalism, School Choice, & Learning Pods
Georgetown’s Dr. Marguerite Roza on K-12 School Finance, Spending, & Results
Stanford’s National Humanities Medal Winner Prof. Arnold Rampersad on Langston Hughes & Ralph Ellison
The Washington Post’s Jay Mathews on An Optimist's Guide to American Public Education
BBC Classics Prof. Bettany Hughes on Athenian Democracy, Socrates, & the Goddess Aphrodite
Dartmouth’s Prof. Susannah Heschel Discusses Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel & the Civil Rights Movement
Hoover Institution’s Dr. Eric Hanushek on COVID-19, K-12 Learning Loss, & Economic Impact
UK Classics Scholar Kathryn Tempest on Cicero, Brutus & the Death of Caesar
Best-Selling, Netflix Author Loung Ung On Surviving Pol Pot’s Killing Fields
American Federation for Children’s Tommy Schultz on School Choice & Edu Federalism
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, International Best-Selling Author & Human Rights Activist
WSJ Drama Editor Terry Teachout on Jazz Greats Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington
UGA Prof. Valerie Boyd on Zora Neale Hurston, the Harlem Renaissance, & Black History Month
Boston Catholic Schools Supt. Tom Carroll on National Catholic Schools Week
AZ Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick on National School Choice Week
Pulitzer Winner Taylor Branch on MLK, Civil Rights History, & Race in America
Ignat Solzhenitsyn on His Father’s Nobel Prize-Winning Fight with Communism
Eva Moskowitz of Success Academy on Charter Schools, Achievement Gaps, & COVID-19 Learning Loss
USED Asst. Sec. Jim Blew Talks Sec. DeVos, School Choice, & K-12 Politics
Oxford & UCLA Pulitzer Winner Prof. Daniel Walker Howe on Horace Mann, Common Schools, & Educating for Democracy
Stanford’s Prof. Caroline Hoxby on Charter Schools, K-12 Ed Reform, & Global Competitiveness
SABIS® President Carl Bistany on International Education, Charter Public Schools, & At-Risk Students
UConn’s Prof. Wayne Franklin on James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, & American Democracy
Wall Street Journal Columnist Jason Riley on the 2020 Election, School Choice, & Race in America
Nationally Recognized Author Tara Ross on the Importance of the Electoral College
Pulitzer-Winning Author Stacy Schiff on the Salem Witch Trials
LSU’s Prof. Andrew Burstein on Washington Irving, the Headless Horseman, & the Presidency
NCTQ’s Kate Walsh on the Crisis in K-12 Teacher Prep, Quality, & Evaluation
Cheryl Brown Henderson, Daughter of Lead Plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Ed., on Race & Schooling
Harvard PEPG’s Prof. Paul Peterson on Charter Schools, Digital Learning, & Ed Next Polling
Award-Winning Writer Brenda Wineapple On the 170th Anniv. of The Scarlet Letter & Pres. Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment
International Best-Seller Dr. Jung Chang On Wild Swans, Mao’s Tyranny, & Modern China
Kelly Smith, Prenda CEO, on Microschooling & the Future of K-12 Learning
U-Ark Prof. Jay Greene & EdChoice’s Jason Bedrick on Yeshivas vs. New York & Religious Liberty
Michelle Rhee, Former Chancellor, D.C. Public Schools, on Leading Urban District Reform & the COVID-19 Moment
Award-Winning Author Devery Anderson on the 65th Anniversary of the Murder of Emmett Till
Christensen Institute's Julia Freeland Fisher on K-12 Disruptive Innovation, Professional Networks, & Social Mobility
President of D.C.’s AppleTree Institute, Jack McCarthy on Charter Schools & Fall Reopening
"Call Me Ishmael" Melville Scholar Prof. Hershel Parker on Moby-Dick & Classic Literature
NYT #1 Best-Selling Science Author, Dava Sobel on Copernicus, Galileo’s Daughter, & Astronomy
Widow of Civil Rights Icon, Dr. Sephira Shuttlesworth on Desegregating Schools & Racial Equity
WSJ Children's Book Critic & Author, Meghan Cox Gurdon on Reading Aloud to Children in the Age of Distraction
Boston Uni.’s Dr. Charles Glenn on School Choice, Civil Rights, & Espinoza
Brown Uni.’s Pulitzer-Winning Prof. Gordon Wood on American Independence & the Founding Fathers
Lead Plaintiff Kendra Espinoza & IJ’s Attorney Erica Smith on Landmark SCOTUS School Choice Decision
U-Arkansas Prof. Patrick Wolf on School Choice, Espinoza, & Students’ Civic Prep
Pulitzer Winner Diane McWhorter on Civil Rights History & Race in America
NYT Best-Selling Children’s Author Carole Boston Weatherford on Fannie Lou Hamer & Race in America
MA Commissioner Jeff Riley on Remote Learning, Voc-Techs, & Reforming Boston’s Schools
Acclaimed Poet & Former NEA Chairman Dana Gioia on Poetry & Arts Education
Homeschooling Expert Kerry McDonald on Harvard Law Professor Controversy & COVID
Kaya Henderson, Former Chancellor, D.C. Public Schools, on Leading Urban District Reform
UVA Law Professor Kimberly Robinson On Legal Debate About Education As Federal Right
New York Times #1 best-selling author John M. Barry on the 1918 Influenza Pandemic & lessons for COVID-19
Ashley Berner of Johns Hopkins on Academic Quality, Educational Pluralism, & the Providence Public Schools
Christensen Institute Co-founder Michael Horn on Digital Learning & COVID-19
The Institute for Justice's Tim Keller on Espinoza v. Montana DOR & ongoing school choice litigation
Stanford Pulitzer Winner David Kennedy on Lessons for COVID-19 from the 1918 Flu Epidemic & Great Depression
The Washington Post’s Jay Mathews on schooling during COVID-19 & lessons from teaching great Jaime Escalante
Ambassador Ray Flynn on Public Leadership During Global Crisis & the Case for Catholic Schools
NC State's Anna Egalite on School Choice in America & Abroad
Kevin Chavous on the Promise & Potential of Quality School Choice Options
Citizen Stewart on Changing the K-12 Education Power Structure
CREDO’s Macke Raymond on Charter Schools’ Quality & Growth
Cato's Neal McCluskey on School Choice & Educational Federalism
Julie Young, Virtual Schooling Pioneer
Susan Wise Bauer on Classical Education & Homeschooling
Dick Komer on Espinoza v. Montana & the Bigoted Legacy of Blaine Amendments
Derrell Bradford on the Future of Education Reform
Montse Alvarado on Protecting Religious Liberty in Schools & Society
Lance Izumi on How Charters Are Meeting Diverse Learning Needs
Will Fitzhugh on the Enduring Relevance of History Research & Writing
Joy Pullmann on the Fallout from Common Core
E.D. Hirsch, Jr. on Background Knowledge & Educational Equity
Steven Wilson on Anti-Intellectualism in K-12 Education
Jason Bedrick on Religious Freedom and Private School Autonomy
Dr. Lindsey Burke on LBJ’s True Education Legacy
NH Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut on State-Driven K-12 Reform
Andrew Campanella, President of National School Choice Week
Dr. Howard Fuller on School Choice & Presidential Politics
Wilfred McClay on his new book, Land of Hope
Natalie Wexler on her new book, The Knowledge Gap
Max Eden, Education Researcher, on School Policies & Mass Shootings
Nina Rees, National Charter Leader, on Education Policy & the 2020 Election
Charter Approval in CA, Online Learning in OK, Outsourcing Teachers?, SCOTUS School Choice Case, NYT on Success Academy
Introducing The Learning Curve: Student Discipline, Teacher Diversity, School-to-Prison Pipeline, Presidential Politics & School Choice
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