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The Learning Curve

Pioneer Institute

Join The Learning Curve every Wednesday for insight and perspective on education, learning trends, school choice, and public policy. Our hosts and guests offer a mix of provocative commentary as they interview school leaders, innovators, bestselling authors, policymakers, and more. Send any suggestions, tips, and fan mail to [email protected].

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378 episodes

  1. METCO's Dr. Kandice Sumner on Massachusetts' Voluntary School Desegregation Program 30:24
  2. Dr. John Ferling on Jefferson, Hamilton, & Federalism 1:02:21
  3. Leslie Klinger on Bram Stoker, Dracula, & Halloween 46:24
  4. Boston College's Melodie Wyttenbach on K-12 Catholic Education 39:59
  5. Hoover at Stanford's Peter Berkowitz on Reclaiming Liberal Education in America 30:53
  6. Dr. Jocelyn Chadwick on Teaching Mark Twain, Huck Finn, & Jim 45:26
  7. Worcester's Tim Murray on Massachusetts' Voc-Tech Schools 33:25
  8. Academy Prep's Lincoln Tamayo on School Reform in Massachusetts & Florida 48:37
  9. American Federation for Children's Patrick Graff on School Choice 37:05
  10. Excel Academy Charter School’s Owen Stearns on Academic Quality & Bridging Gaps 47:00
  11. Pepperdine Law's Pulitzer Winner Edward Larson on the Spirit of 1776 59:02
  12. U-MN Law's Ilan Wurman on U.S. Constitutional Originalism 46:25
  13. Arne Duncan on Federal Education Tax Credit Program 25:58
  14. NYT Best-Selling Children’s Author Carole Boston Weatherford on Harriet Tubman, Jesse Owens, & Black Heroes 36:40
  15. Florida's Julie Young on Virtual School Lessons for Age of AI 45:18
  16. The Concord Review’s Bob Nasson on Students’ History Essays & Excellence 39:34
  17. U-Chicago Law's Alison LaCroix on the Origins of American Federalism 1:12:59
  18. NYT-Bestseller Jane Leavy on Baseball Great Sandy Koufax 54:51
  19. Johns Hopkins' Dr. David Steiner on Academic Quality, School Choice, & Accountability 52:36
  20. Pulitzer Winner Joseph Ellis on George Washington & American Revolution 250 42:05
  21. Stanford's Dr. Lerone Martin on the Young MLK 57:33
  22. Florida's Doug Tuthill on School Choice 36:03
  23. Dr. Suzanne Marrs on Eudora Welty, Southern Fiction & Imagination 44:46
  24. UK's Dr. Snezana Lawrence on the History of Mathematics 47:24
  25. EdChoice's Leslie Hiner on School Choice Litigation 55:09
  26. UK U-Sussex's Andrew Hadfield on Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, & Epic Poetry 59:30
  27. Progressive Policy Institute's Rachel Canter on Mississippi’s Academic Gains 49:43
  28. NYT-Best Seller Dr. Kevin Gutzman on the Jeffersonian Presidents 46:34
  29. Florida's Julie Young on Say Yes! How Virtual Became Reality 46:32
  30. Wash. U's Gerald Early on Play Harder: The Triumph of Black Baseball in America 46:06
  31. Harvard Pulitzer Winner Stephen Greenblatt on Christopher Marlowe - Elizabethan Playwright & Spy 43:23
  32. Discovery Institute's Dr. Keri Ingraham on School Choice & Edu Federalism 39:19
  33. DFI's Jim Blew & Lynch's Katie Everett on Fed. Ed. Tax Credit in Blue States 44:25
  34. Gijs van Hensbergen on Antoni Gaudí & the Sagrada Família 45:53
  35. Aaron Lansky on the Yiddish Book Center & Preserving Jewish Culture 46:55
  36. U-MI's Sarah Cohodes on Charter Public Schools & Paths to College Success 37:57
  37. Willard Sterne Randall on Alexander Hamilton & Founding Era Political-Economy 23:37
  38. FL State's James Shuls & Cato's Neal McCluskey on History of U.S. School Choice 48:35
  39. Roxana Robinson on Georgia O'Keeffe, Mother of American Modernist Painting 54:41
  40. Pulitzer Winner Gordon Wood on Benjamin Franklin & American Revolution 250 46:19
  41. Step Up for Students' Ron Matus on Florida School Choice 48:59
  42. Dr. Richard Phelps on Post-MCAS Assessments & Accountability in MA 31:25
  43. ​​IJ's David Hodges & Plaintiff Ariella Hellman on U.S. First Circuit Case, Hellman v. Mass. DESE 45:35
  44. Emmy Winner A’Lelia Bundles on Madam C.J. Walker, First U.S. Self-Made Female Millionaire 48:25
  45. Hedgehog Review's Jay Tolson on Walker Percy, Southern Catholic Novelist 51:35
  46. Award-Winner Ruth Franklin on Anne Frank & Holocaust Remembrance 50:22
  47. Stanford's Dr. Lerone Martin & NC State's Dr. Jason Miller on MLK's Dream & Langston Hughes’s Poetry 49:53
  48. International Bestseller Dr. Jung Chang on Fly, Wild Swans & China's Despotism 48:49
  49. Arizona's Katherine Haley on School Choice, Fed Ed, & State-led Reform 54:24
  50. Julie Young, Julie Petersen, & Kay Johnson on Virtual Schools, Actual Learning 1:04:22