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Joseph P. Viteritti, the author of "Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education," is this week's guest on the Education Exchange. bit.ly/43G6Dy3
The Education Exchange: When Radicals Dreamed Big About Better Student Outcomes
Paul E. Peterson interviews Joseph P. Viteritti, author of "Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education"
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October 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Helping Kids Slip the Surly Bonds of Leveled Reading: New book touts the critical role teachers play in literacy development. bit.ly/3WtDt1i
Helping Kids Slip the Surly Bonds of Leveled Reading
New book touts the critical role teachers play in literacy development
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October 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Should Schools Teach That America Is Good? Polling finds that teachers, more than the general public, believe schools should. bit.ly/4qwVdXm
Should Schools Teach That America Is Good?
Polling finds that teachers, more than the general public, believe schools should
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October 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Campus Leaders Conveniently Find the Spines They Lost Years Ago: Trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets. College presidents have kicked over a lot of buckets. bit.ly/4no8VJ8
Campus Leaders Conveniently Find the Spines They Lost Years Ago
Trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets. College presidents have kicked over a lot of buckets.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
How to Really Know a Thing, Directed by Quentin Tarantino: The filmmaker’s passion and precision about ’70s cinema is worth adopting in education. bit.ly/48hnDho
How to Really Know a Thing, Directed by Quentin Tarantino
The filmmaker’s passion and precision about ’70s cinema is worth adopting in education
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October 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Unleashing Education Freedom’s True Potential: The school choice movement is winning the fight for universal eligibility. It must now set its sights on universal funding. bit.ly/496sx10
Unleashing Education Freedom’s True Potential
The school choice movement is winning the fight for universal eligibility. It must now set its sights on universal funding.
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October 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The Wrong Kind of Civic Education: Our perpetual cycle of shutdowns, shakedowns, and deficits is teaching our youth all the wrong lessons about American principles. bit.ly/4qcmX3k
The Wrong Kind of Civic Education
Our perpetual cycle of shutdowns, shakedowns, and deficits is teaching our youth all the wrong lessons about American principles
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October 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Inside Florida’s Charter Schools for Exceptional Students: How parental choice is reshaping special education in the Sunshine State. bit.ly/4nPYM9r
Inside Florida’s Charter Schools for Exceptional Students
How parental choice is reshaping special education in the Sunshine State
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October 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The Progressive School Reform Voices Crying in the Wilderness: Profiles of the courageous few on the left who championed choice read today like ancient history. bit.ly/43cNuDE
The Progressive School Reform Voices Crying in the Wilderness
Profiles of the courageous few on the left who championed choice read today like ancient history
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October 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
SecEd Maddow Makes College Presidents an Offer They Can’t Refuse. If Trump’s higher ed “compact” was good for the goose, AOC’s will be even better for the gander. bit.ly/4pVBf8p
SecEd Maddow Makes College Presidents an Offer They Can’t Refuse
If Trump’s higher ed “compact” was good for the goose, AOC’s will be even better for the gander
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October 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Are Charter Schools an Endangered Species? The school choice coalition is showing cracks, and charters could be the worse for it. bit.ly/3IuLOP0
Are Charter Schools an Endangered Species?
The school choice coalition is showing cracks, and charters could be the worse for it
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October 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
No Simple Answers for Kids and Screens: The instinct to regulate children’s digital consumption is admirable. But what if tech isn’t the bogeyman we think it is? bit.ly/42O7s7A
No Simple Answers for Kids and Screens
The instinct to regulate children’s digital consumption is admirable. But what if tech isn’t the bogeyman we think it is?
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September 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
What If Social Science Is a Scam? A new book on the “signing first” scandal should make us question if any research in the field is relevant or reliable. bit.ly/3IJgBHM
What If Social Science Is a Scam?
A new book on the “signing first” scandal should make us question if any research in the field is relevant or reliable
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September 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Today and tomorrow, the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University is hosting its fourth annual conference on emerging school models. Register to watch online at bit.ly/46ial2N.

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September 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Paul E. Peterson interviews Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District, on the Education Exchange podcast. bit.ly/3KgSbpu
The Education Exchange: How to Save a School District
Paul E. Peterson interviews Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District
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September 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Clapping Back at Homeschooling’s Perennial Foes and Fallacies: Let’s set the record straight about why more families are choosing home education. bit.ly/46vKFyp
Clapping Back at Homeschooling’s Perennial Foes and Fallacies
Let’s set the record straight about why more families are choosing home education
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September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Start-Up Culture Comes to K–12 Accreditation. ESA laws can support—or stifle—new schools. bit.ly/4mqHxtD
Start-Up Culture Comes to K–12 Accreditation
ESA laws can support—or stifle—new schools
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September 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
How Not to Honor Charlie Kirk: The illiberal responses to Kirk’s assassination have grave implications for America’s schools, colleges, and students. bit.ly/4nOOi9X
How Not to Honor Charlie Kirk
The illiberal responses to Kirk’s assassination have grave implications for America’s schools, colleges, and students
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September 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Nationwide School Choice a Major Breakthrough for Children—but There’s a Catch. Part five of a five-part series on the new federal scholarship tax credit. bit.ly/46rmhhj
Nationwide School Choice a Major Breakthrough for Children—but There’s a Catch
Part five of a five-part series on the new federal scholarship tax credit
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September 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
For an Effective Scholarship Tax Credit, Feds Must Bend the Knee to States. Part four of a five-part series on the new federal scholarship tax credit. bit.ly/3VX0RUs
For an Effective Scholarship Tax Credit, Feds Must Bend the Knee to States
Part four of a five-part series on the new federal scholarship tax credit
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September 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Bases Are Loaded. Don’t Get Caught Looking. Part three of a five-part series on the new federal scholarship tax credit. bit.ly/4nz4cou
Bases Are Loaded. Don’t Get Caught Looking.
Part three of a five-part series on the new federal scholarship tax credit
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September 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Passing the Law Was Just the Beginning: Part two of a five-part series on the new federal scholarship tax credit. bit.ly/3I0vbKR
Passing the Law Was Just the Beginning
Part two of a five-part series on the new federal scholarship tax credit
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September 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Rulemaking Must Resolve Ambiguities in Federal School Choice Law—and Fast. bit.ly/3VMsakm
Rulemaking Must Resolve Ambiguities in Federal School Choice Law—and Fast
Part one of a <a href="https://www.educationnext.org/how-should-the-new-federal-scholarship-tax-credit-be-regulated-forum/" target="_blank">five-part series on the new federal tax credit scholarship</...
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September 15, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The Soft Bigotry of Education Blather: More dismal NAEP results call for a clear, decisive response from the field. What we get is self-serving gobbledygook. bit.ly/46mTKK5
The Soft Bigotry of Education Blather
More dismal NAEP results call for a clear, decisive response from the field. What we get is self-serving gobbledygook
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September 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Vanishing Constituency for Campus Free Speech: Students’ right to self-expression increasingly abridged by left and right. bit.ly/3KefP5S
The Vanishing Constituency for Campus Free Speech
Students’ right to self-expression increasingly abridged by left and right
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September 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM