Edchoice Chats

Drew Catt the choices director of state research and special projects sits down with Dr. Angela Dills, Gimelstob-Landry distinguished professor of regional economic development at Western Carolina University.

On this episode of the Big Idea series we welcome back Dr. Lance Izumi and he tells about the research he did for his newest book, The Homeschool Boom: Pandemic, Policies, and Possibilities.

In this edition of Big Ideas series we speak with Dr. Britany Gatewood, a researcher, and Bernita Bradely, the founder of Engage Detroit. We learn why Bernita started her co-op and Dr. Gatewood's upcoming case study, Teach Me To Teach My Own: Homeschool Advocacy and Parent Agency.

Today Ron Matus joins the show who is the director of policy and public affairs at Step Up for Students in Florida, and Denisha Merriweather also joins the show who is the director of public relations and content marketing for the American Federation for Children, and the founder of Black Minds Matter. They are the co-authors of a new report titled, Controlling the Narrative, Parental Choice, Black Empowerment and Lessons From Florida.

Robert Enlow, Jordan Zachary, Jason Bedrick, Lauren Hodge and Ed Tarnowski talk a little bit about what's going on in the states right now.

Michael Horn joins the show who is a distinguished fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, and the author of an article at Education Next titled, Some Pods Will Outlast The Pandemic.

We chat with several EdChoice team members as they give us an update on the legal happenings in the states.

In this episode, we share key takeaways from our January 2022 wave of polling as reported on our EdChoice Public Opinion Tracker.

Aaron Smith joins the show who is the director of education policy at the Reason Foundation. He is the co-author, along with Jordan Campbell, Christian Barnard, and Jude Schwalbach, of a new interactive report titled The K-12 Spending Spotlight.

In this episode we speak with some members of the conference planning committee and hear their take on ISCRC and what makes it such a beneficial event.

Religious Liberty and Education series joined by Eli Spitzer, the headmaster of a hasidic boys' high school in London. He is the author of a recent essay in Mosaic Magazine titled, "New York State versus the Yeshivas", which is the subject of today's conversation.

In this episode we hear from our team on the EdChoice Superlatives and get a snapshot of the highs and lows of the school choice movement from the previous year.

In this episode, we share key takeaways from our December 2021 wave of polling as reported on our EdChoice Public Opinion Tracker.

Andrew Campanella, the President of National School Choice Week, talks to us about some of the results from a recent survey conducted by the organization.

In this episode of our Big Ideas series we speak with Dr. Nicole Garnett, professor of law at the University of Notre Dame. She talks about her recent report, Accountability in Private School Choice.

In this episode, we share key takeaways from our November 2021 wave of polling as reported on our EdChoice Public Opinion Tracker.

In today's episode of the podcast we talk to the principal of Prestonwood Christian Academy's hybrid schooling program, Bill Wendl. He tells us about the innovative ideas needed in order to successfully run a hybrid educational option.

In this episode we speak with long-time choice advocate Jack Coons. He tells us about his start in the school choice movement and how he worked with our founder, Milton Friedman.

We speak with Holly Grant, someone who became a supporter of the school choice movement when she searched for options to for her children when the pandemic first started in spring of 2020.

In this episode we speak with colleague Jason Bedrick the coauthor of a new report, Who's Afraid of School Choice: Examining the Validity and Intensity of Predictions by School Choice Opponents. This report brings up the many predictions school choice opponents have and how they don't really have a basis for these claims.