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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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