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Enemies of Innovation

Thomas Sowell explains why even triumphant charter schools spark resistance.

Trump, Covid and Reason

Interview with Nadine Strossen

What to do about hate speech.

Getting Back to Work: Strategies to Build the Ecosystem

Watch the most recent Economic Opportunity webinar led by Philanthropy Roundtable’s Tony Mayer.

The Exchange

Microschooling | Donor leadership on covid-19 | Ideas on race, policing, crime | Black female millionaire donor | Heterodoxy grows | RBG and donor intent | Smashing culture

Webinar Part 1: Diseases of Despair

Based on recent CDC numbers, COVID has tripled and quadrupled our anxiety and depression levels and doubled the number of people seriously considering suicide. The most likely cause? The economic downturn.

Webinar Part 2: Civil Society Solutions to Diseases of Despair

Deaths of despair doubled over the past 15 years, and if left unchecked are predicted to double again in the next decade. COVID has only increased rates at which people are overdosing and contemplating suicide.

New director at Center for Political Thought and Leadership seeks to drive civic education mission forward

The Center for Political Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University has named Lucian Spataro as its new interim director to lead the center’s mission of enhancing civic education in schools across the country. 

COVID-19, the National Economy, and Mental Health

Key takeaways from a discussion of the effects of COVID-19 on the national economy and its relation to rising rates of diseases and deaths of despair.

Is Action Civics an Advance in Civic Education?

This study examines the origins, nature, and educational effects of a movement in civic education that goes by a number of names—”New Civics,” “Action Civics,” “Civic Engagement,” and “Project-Based Civics.”

Bring Civics Back to the Classroom

We can rise to the challenge and meet this moment with the same innovation and resolve that have characterized the American experiment for the past nearly 250 years

This non-profit organization works to recover WWII MIAs still missing

Friday marks 41 years since then President Jimmy Carter proclaimed a national day of remembrance for those Americans captured or still missing from war.

Is it Time for a 490 B.C. Project ?

Independent Institute published a new policy report suggesting high schoolers need to know classical heritage.

Nineteen Years After 9/11: How to Support Veterans and Their Families

This September marked 19 years since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that sent a generation of Americans, including myself, to war.

Playing Politics

“Programs like Boys State can, by necessity, recreate only the game of politics. But that game must be premised on a deeper reality.”

Howard Fuller Has Hope for the Next Generation of Education Reformers

Howard Fuller talks about how school choice empowers minorities, the problem of polarization, and why it’s time to rethink the entire education system.

American Enterprise Institute Report

A road map to reemployment in the COVID-19 economy: Empowering workers, employers, and states

It s Not Philanthropy s Job to Save Democracy

Foundations exist to spend their money on supporting their missions, and nothing else.

How a New Fund Helps Parents Teach Their Children

A recently launched experiment supports parents in educating their own kids—during distance learning or otherwise.

Online Learning Opportunities

Through its Exchange Program, the National Constitution Center connects middle school, high school, and college students to hold civil conversations and learn more about the Constitution.