On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Marian Tupy, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the founder and editor of HumanProgress.org, joins Mike and David to discuss the incredible progress that humanity has made over millennia, and what schools might do to better teach kids that our past, present, and future is not all doom and gloom. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber examines a new study investigating if education savings accounts increase tuition costs at private schools.

Recommended content: 

• Ten global trends every smart person should know: And many others you will find interesting —Marian Tupy and Ronald Bailey
• “Progress, rediscovered” —Ronald Bailey, Reason Magazine
• “School choice need not mean an expensive windfall for the rich” —Michael Petrilli, Fordham Institute
• “Name Fordham’s boy band!” —Eduwonkette, Education Week
• Jason Fontana and Jennifer L. Jennings, “The effect of taxpayer-funded education savings accounts on private school tuition: Evidence from Iowa,” Annenberg Institute at Brown University (April 2024).

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