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Sinopsis
EdChoice is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to advancing full and unencumbered educational choice as the best pathway to successful lives and a stronger society. EdChoice believes that families, not bureaucrats, are best equipped to make K-12 schooling decisions for their children. The organization works at the state level to educate diverse audiences, train advocates and engage policymakers on the benefits of high-quality school choice programs. EdChoice is the intellectual legacy of Milton and Rose D. Friedman, who founded the organization in 1996 as the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice.
Episodios
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Ep 38: Building Coalitions with Robert Enlow, Keri Hunter and Michael Chartier
06/03/2018 Duración: 17minIn today’s episode, EdChoice’s President and CEO Robert Enlow moderates a conversation with two of our team’s long-time coalition builders, Vice President of Training and Outreach Keri Hunter and Senior Director of State Relations Michael Chartier. The three talk about their past experiences in coalition building and which states have strong school choice coalitions today. To learn more, visit our website at www.edchoice.org.
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Ep 37: New SC Private School Survey with Shaunette Parker
28/02/2018 Duración: 10minIn this episode of EdChoice Chats, Shaunette Parker, executive director of My South Carolina Education, joins us on the show to talk about a new private school survey report with one of the report’s co-authors, EdChoice Director of State Research and Policy Analysis Drew Catt. They delve into common arguments for and against school choice locally, concerns parents and private school leaders have about choice programs and, of course, what the data say about it all. To download this brief, visit www.edchoice.org/SCSchoolSurvey.
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Ep 36: Cool Schools | Partnership for Inner-City Education
27/02/2018 Duración: 27minIn today’s EdChoice Chat, we continue our “Cool Schools” series with a conversation with Kathleen Porter-Magee. She heads the Partnership for Inner-City Education, which operates six Catholic schools in New York City. Katherine tells our Director of National Research Mike McShane about the Partnership’s community roots and how they’re helping century-old Catholic schools innovate. To learn more about educational choice, visit www.edchoice.org.
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Ep 35: The Monthly Debrief - February Looking to March 2018
22/02/2018 Duración: 15minDo you want a behind-the-scenes look at the legislation updates we feature in our monthly state brief blog post? You’ll find that in today’s EdChoice Chat. In this episode, Michael Chartier talks with Jason Bedrick about the details of educational choice legislation in several states. To learn more about educational choice, visit www.edchoice.org.
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Ep 34: Reviewing the International School Choice and Reform Conference
20/02/2018 Duración: 20minIn today’s episode of EdChoice Chats, Director of State Research and Policy Analysis Drew Catt chats with Research Assistant Mike Shaw about their experience at the International School Choice and Reform Conference. They talk about who was there, forthcoming research they got to preview and panels they watched or participated in. To learn more, visit www.edchoice.org.
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Ep 33: Cool Schools | The Oaks Academy
13/02/2018 Duración: 32minIn this episode of EdChoice Chats, our Director of National Research Mike McShane continues our “Cool Schools” series with an interview with CEO of The Oaks Academy Andrew Hart. They talk about the classical Christian school network’s mission to provide excellent education in a racially and socioeconomically integrated environment near downtown Indianapolis. To learn more, visit www.edchoice.org.
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Ep 32: How Florida Families Use ESAs with Jason Bedrick & Lindsey Burke
07/02/2018 Duración: 14minToday, EdChoice released its latest research, a report on how Florida families are using the state’s Gardiner Scholarship Program, an education savings account (ESA) program for primarily for students with special needs. Visit www.edchoice.org/PersonalizingEducation to download the full report.
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Ep 31: Future Louisiana Voucher Research with Jonathan Mills
30/01/2018 Duración: 20minIn today’s EdChoice Chat, Director of State Research and Policy Analysis Drew Catt talks with Jonathan Mills, senior research associate in the University of Arkansas’s Department of Education. Jon talks about his current research projects, what he’s learned from collaborating with a diverse team and how research can be useful for parents and To learn more about educational choice, visit www.edchoice.org.
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Ep 30: Our 2018 School Choice Yearbook Superlatives
26/01/2018 Duración: 18minOur VP of Communications Jennifer Wagner was joined by our Research Assistant Mike Shaw, our Senior Director of State Relations Michael Chartier and our VP of Legal Affairs Leslie Hiner to give a glimpse behind the scenes of how our team determined our 2018 yearbook superlatives. What are they; what's our reasoning and what makes deciding so tough. Learn more at www.edchoice.org.
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Ep 29: 2018 National School Choice Week with Andrew Campanella
23/01/2018 Duración: 13minToday on EdChoice Chats, we’re listening in on a conversation between EdChoice’s President and CEO Robert Enlow and his friend Andrew Campanella, the president of National School Choice Week. They talk about how National School Choice Week got started, how it has grown and what it means for the school choice movement. To learn more about school choice, visit www.edchoice.org.
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Ep 28: Researchers to Watch with Frederick Andersson, Christian Buerger & Mike Ford
18/01/2018 Duración: 18minIn this episode of EdChoice Chats, our Director of State Research and Policy Analysis Drew Catt interviews three up-and-coming school choice researchers: Frederick Andersson and Christian Buerger of IUPUI and Mike Ford of the University of Wisconsin. They talk about why they chose to research school choice, their current and future projects and tips for other school choice researchers. For more information, visit our website at www.edchoice.org.
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Ep 27: Urban Sprawl, the Environment and School Choice with Bart Danielsen
11/01/2018 Duración: 25minIn this episode of EdChoice Chats, our Director of State Research and Policy Analysis Drew Catt talks with Dr. Bartley Danielsen, the author of a three-part blog series on concentrated poverty, pollution, urban blight and gentrification and how school choice could fit into the overall solution. They discuss what inspired this research, what the data say and more. Click below to listen, and be sure to check out all of the posts in this fascinating series. 1. Could We Solve Poverty and Pollution with School Choice? https://www.edchoice.org/blog/solve-poverty-pollution-school-choice/ 2. Why Do Experts Disagree on How to Approach Concentrated Poverty and Education? https://www.edchoice.org/blog/experts-disagree-approach-concentrated-poverty-education/ 3. Struggling Schools, School Choice and the Fear of Gentrification https://www.edchoice.org/blog/struggling-schools-school-choice-fear-gentrification/
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Ep 26: Cool Schools | ASU Prep Digital
04/01/2018 Duración: 29minIn our new "Cool Schools" series, our Director of National Research Mike McShane is not just celebrating innovative schools across America, but also opening minds to what is possible in education. In this episode, he spoke with Amy McGrath, COO of Arizona State University’s ASU Prep Digital and associate vice president of ASU Educational Outreach, about her cool school—how it came to be, how it’s different from other schools out there, how she measures success and what she has learned along the way. Listen to the podcast to learn more. To learn more about EdChoice, visit www.edchoice.org.
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Ep 25: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going? with Robert Enlow
18/12/2017 Duración: 11minIn this podcast episode, EdChoice Vice President of Communications Jennifer Wagner chats with President and CEO Robert Enlow about the year behind and the year ahead. They discuss the major school choice events of 2017, including Arizona’s education savings account (ESA) expansion and EdChoice’s own rebrand. Then they dive into what we expect and hope for in 2018, as we continue our mission to advance educational opportunity for all Americans. To learn more about EdChoice, visit our website at www.edchoice.org.
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Ep 24: Behind the Scenes with EdChoice’s Research Team
15/12/2017 Duración: 20minA few members of the EdChoice research team jumped in the studio to answer some of the most frequently asked questions about (you guessed it) our research. Listen now to learn more—from the services we provide the states to how we respond to critics of our work.
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Ep 23: Legal Defense and Education Center with Leslie Hiner
08/12/2017 Duración: 08minOur Vice President of Communications (and a lawyer in her own right) Jennifer Wagner sits down with our Vice President of Legal Affairs Leslie Hiner to introduce EdChoice's new Legal Defense and Education Center, or LDEC. Learn why we developed this new center and what type of work we'll be doing to help protect educational choice programs across America in this episode. For more information about EdChoice, visit www.edchoice.org.
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Ep 22: 2017 Schooling In America Survey with Paul DiPerna & Team
29/11/2017 Duración: 24minGet the key findings from EdChoice’s annual survey of Americans on education issues and more, with a special focus on small town and rural families as well as new questions about the role of the federal government. The authors of our Schooling in America Survey—Paul DiPerna, Michael Shaw and Andrew D. Catt—join us in this episode to talk what's new, survey results and what's next. For the full report, visit www.edchoice.org/NationalSurvey2017
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Ep 21: Legal Look Ahead with Leslie Hiner
20/11/2017 Duración: 15minThe EdChoice team is investing more than ever in tracking school choice, children’s rights and teachers’ rights in the courts. Our VP of Communications Jennifer Wagner sat down with our VP of Legal Affairs Leslie Hiner to talk about the state of legal affairs in the school choice movement right now, what’s on the horizon and the supports EdChoice will provide to school choice’s defenders. Listen now!
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Ep 20: The Homogenization of Schools with Lindsey Burke & Corey DeAngelis
16/11/2017 Duración: 22minIn this podcast, EdChoice’s Director of State Research and Policy Analysis Drew Catt chats about the effects of school choice regulations on the homogenization of schools with the report’s authors Lindsey Burke—director of the Center for Education policy for the Heritage Foundation, an EdChoice fellow and doctoral candidate at George Mason University—and Corey DeAngelis, policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom, policy advisor for the Heartland Institute and a distinguished doctoral fellow and Ph.D. student in education policy at the University of Arkansas. Listen now. The full report can be found here: http://www.uaedreform.org/downloads/2017/09/does-regulation-induce-homogenization-an-analysis-of-three-voucher-programs-in-the-united-states.pdf
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Ep 19: The Pension Crisis with Michael Podgursky & Marty Lueken
26/10/2017 Duración: 46minIn today’s episode, Dr. Marty Lueken, EdChoice’s director of fiscal policy and analysis, chats with Dr. Michael Podgursky, professor of economics at the University of Missouri. The two break down teacher pensions—how they work, why they’ve created problems and how school choice can help. For more information about school choice in America, visit www.edchoice.org.