Edchoice Chats

In this episode of EdChoice Chats, our Director of State Research and Special Projects Drew Catt talks with Assistant Professor of Teaching and Learning Grant Clayton at the University of Colorado about his journey from K–12 teacher to administrator to professor and researcher and his mission to “blow up” the way teachers-in-training think about schooling and the classroom. For more information, visit www.edchoice.org.

As the largest-ever survey of participants in a private school choice program, this new report represents some of the strongest evidence to date of the views and educational priorities of parents exercising private school choice. Listen to the authors, Jason Bedrick and Dr. Lindsey Burke, talk about what inspired this study of Florida tax-credit scholarship parents and what they found. To download the full report, visit www.edchoice.org/FLParentSurvey.

In this Monthly Debrief podcast, EdChoice’s Director of State Relations Lauren Hodge and Director of Policy Jason Bedrick discuss the latest school choice happenings in the states in September and look forward to what’s still to come as we close out the month. For more information, visit www.edchoice.org

In today’s episode of EdChoice Chats, Mike McShane talks with the founder of Build UP, a new school launching in 2019 in Ensley, Alabama. In the podcast, Mark Martin shares his ambitious vision to help his students solve some of their core poverty-related problems. To learn more, visit www.edchoice.org.

In today’s episode of EdChoice Chats, two hardcore Harry Potter fans—our President and CEO Robert Enlow and our CRM and Email Marketing Manager Abby Hayes—get creative discussing the educational themes in one of the most beloved book and movie series of all time. Check it out! Learn more about school choice at www.edchoice.org.

What does it mean to hold schools accountable? How do we measure school performance? Why do we care? We convened focus groups of K-12 stakeholders to wrestle with these tough questions and help us better understand the current accountability landscape—where we’ve been as well as where we’re headed. We’ve compiled what those focus group participants told us into this report, which the authors discuss in this podcast. Download the full report at www.edchoice.org/AccountabilityEcosystem

You may have heard that private schools don’t serve students with special needs. But in today’s podcast, Director of National Research Mike McShane talks with Lannie Davis-Frecker, president and CEO of the Julie Billiart Schools, about how the schools serve students with a variety of special needs, how they fund the schools and how they measure progress. For more information, visit www.edchoice.org.

To download the full report, visit www.edchoice.org/VoucherFiscalEffects. In our new study, EdChoice’s Director of Fiscal Policy and Analysis Marty Lueken examined the fiscal impact of voucher programs in Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Utah, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia—from their inception through FY 2015—to determine whether they generated costs or savings for state and local taxpayers. So do school vouchers cost us more money, or do they actually save money while educating the same number of kids. Find out by listening to this podcast with the researcher himself.

In this episode of EdChoice Chats, we bring you a breakdown of school choice-related themes in the popular NBC television show Parenthood. This is the second in our School Choice in Pop Culture series. To listen to more, view our uploads or subscribe to our pop culture playlist to always get notifications of new episodes. To learn more about our research and our work, visit www.edchoice.org.

In this Monthly Debrief podcast, EdChoice’s Director of State Relations Lauren Hodge, Director of Policy Jason Bedrick and Senior Director of State Relations Michael Chartier discuss the latest school choice happenings in the states in August and look forward to what’s still to come as we close out September 2018. Learn more on our website at www.edchoice.org.

In today’s EdChoice Chat, our own Director of Fiscal Policy and Analysis Marty Lueken talks with Cato Institute Policy Analyst Corey DeAngelis about what drew him to school choice, his educational career and his upcoming research. For more information, visit www.edchoice.org.

Our Director of State Research and Special Projects Drew Catt and Research Assistant Mike Shaw join up with our President and CEO Robert Enlow to talk about a new EdChoice research report. Catt and Shaw, the authors Indiana’s Schooling Deserts—our latest report—used Geographic Information System software to map Hoosier families’ drive times to traditional public, magnet, charter and voucher-participating private schools. That first-of-its-kind mapping allowed us to identify where three kinds of “schooling deserts” exist. Listen to learn more about them. For more resources related to this report, visit www.edchoice.org/blog/new-analysis-maps-k-12-schooling-deserts-in-choice-rich-indiana/

In this Monthly Debrief podcast, EdChoice’s Director of State Relations Lauren Hodge, Director of Policy Jason Bedrick and Senior Director of State Relations Michael Chartier discuss the latest school choice happenings in the states in July and look forward to what’s still to come as we close out August 2018. Learn more on our website at www.edchoice.org.

In today’s EdChoice Chat, Director of National Research Mike McShane talks with Thomas Moran, Jr., the president and CEO of a growing Catholic school in inner-city New Orleans. They talk about how the school started and is growing, how they manage to keep tuition free and what they’re doing to close achievement gaps. To learn more, visit www.edchoice.org.

In today’s episode of EdChoice Chats, Vice President of Communications Jennifer Wagner chats with Vice President of Legal Affairs Leslie Hiner about several court cases, including the U.S. Supreme Court Janus v. ASFCME case and an ongoing case about Florida’s school choice programs. To learn more, visit www.edchoice.org.

Marty Lueken chats with Friedman Fellow Dr. Mike Podgursky about why he started studying the education labor market, his upcoming research and more. To learn more, visit www.edchoice.org.

Mike McShane chats with Jeffrey Baker, the school administrator of the Santa Fe Waldorf School. This prekindergarten through 12th grade school follows the nearly 100-year-old hands-on educational model put forth by Rudolf Steiner. Listen to the podcast or read the transcript to discover how this school developed, challenges it has overcome and more. To learn more, visit www.edchoice.org.

Our state team lets you in on legislative movement in the states last month and what’s coming up in July. Learn more at www.edchoice.org.

We are excited to kick off this new series—School Choice in Pop Culture—where different members of our team chat about how school choice is represented in popular TV shows and movies. In this episode, two fans of The West Wing, our Director of National Research Mike McShane and our CRM and Email Marketing Manager Abby Hayes, discuss four clips from the popular early-2000s television series. In the show, the U.S. president, his staff and the District of Columbia’s mayor are debating whether to enact a pilot school voucher program in D.C. Listen to them chat about what the show got right and wrong about school choice. Learn more about school choice across America at www.edchoice.org. Don't forget to subscribe for more in this series! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @edchoice Visit us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/edchoice

Highlands Micro School leader Anne Wintemute explains what a micro school’s philosophy is and how it works in the classroom. To learn more, visit www.edchoice.org.