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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