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Joel Runnels is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona, and a Fulbright Specialist at the University of Ghana's Department of Linguistics/Ghanaian Sign Language Program.

You can learn more about Dr Andrew Foster below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHHr6DYxRy0

You can find Joel Runnels' literature review of Foster below:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26235342?seq=1

Why have four decades of public education reform underperformed? Why do education majors tend to have lower standardized test scores than other undergraduates? And why did a libertarian leaning, union-skeptical Republican elected to school board in a progressive college town ally with the local teacher union against administration? The answer to each question is that k-12 public schools, and increasingly colleges, do not exist to educate students.

Robert Anthon Maranto teaches in the College of Education and Health Professions. You can learn more about him below.

https://edre.uark.edu/people/faculty/uid/rmaranto/name/Robert+Anthony+Maranto/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maranto

You might also be interested in a PhD program offered through his department available at the link below. https://edre.uark.edu/phd-education-policy/index.php

Finally, you can take a look at the two articles that provided most of the context for his interview today below:

https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3200/8/1/2 https://kappanonline.org/maranto-carroll-cheng-teodoro-school-leadership-gender/

Tyler Cowen dropped by an informal conversation about a talk he gave at the University of Arizona. You can see that presentation below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&t=15&v=0kcQEsqKggo&app=desktop

and you can learn more about Tyler below:

https://www.mercatus.org/scholars/tyler-cowen#0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Cowen

You can find him at Marginal Revolution below:

https://marginalrevolution.com/

Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and also Director of the Mercatus Center.  He received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1987.  His book The Great Stagnation: How America Ate the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better was a New York Times best-seller.  Many of his earlier books, including In Praise of Commercial Culture​ and Creative Destruction study the economics of culture and the arts. He was recently named in an Economist poll as one of the most influential economists of the last decade. Several years ago Bloomberg Businessweek dubbed him "America's Hottest Economist."  Foreign Policy magazine named him as one of its "Top 100 Global Thinkers" of 2011. 

Rachel Ferguson is a Professor of Managerial Philosophy and Director of the Liberty and Ethics Center in the Hammond Institute. Her research interests include Hume's classical liberalism, the philosophy of economics, and Aristotelian virtue theory.

She is a board member for the Freedom Center of Missouri, ReThink 315, and LOVEtheLOU.

Ferguson teaches political philosophy, game theory, and business ethics. She also facilitates the course on economic federalism that accompanies the Liberty and Ethics Center's Spring Conference.

In addition, Rachel coordinates a collection of liberty-oriented faculty from mid-sized Midwestern universities, which aims to engage with constitutional law and economics at the faculty, undergraduate, and high school levels.

Dr. Ferguson received her Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Lindenwood University (1999), and her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Saint Louis University (2008).

Dr. Ben-Porath received her doctorate in political philosophy from Tel Aviv University in 2000. She was awarded two successive Tel Aviv University President's postdoctoral grants. In 2001-2004, she was a postdoctoral research associate at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

Dr. Ben-Porath has been teaching at Penn GSE since 2004. At Penn, she served as a special assistant to the university president. She is executive committee member of the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy, and the chair of the faculty advisory board for Penn Press. From 2012-2013 she was affiliated with the Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University. She is currently an associate member of the political science department and the philosophy department at Penn.

You can find Sigal Ben-Porath's book, Free Speech on Campus below: https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15762.html

You can find information on a speaker series on free speech she is organizing below:

https://www.free-speech-battles.org/events-1

Myron Magnet, prizewinning author of Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution and The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817, was the editor of City Journal from 1994 through 2006 and is now its editor-at-large. A longtime member of the board of editors of Fortune magazine, Magnet has written about a wide variety of topics, from American society and social policy, economics, and corporate management to intellectual history, literature, architecture, and the American Founding.

You can learn more about Myron below:

https://myronmagnet.com/

You can follow him on Twitter @MyronMagnet

Randall Curren is Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Education (secondary) at the University of Rochester (New York), and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues (JCCV) at the University of Birmingham (England).  He was the Ginny and Robert Loughlin Founders' Circle Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey for 2012-2013, and held concurrent research professorships at the Jubilee Centre and the Royal Institute of Philosophy (London) in 2013-2015.

Professor Curren is the author of 130 publications, including most recently Living Well Now and in the Future: Why Sustainability Matters, with geologist Ellen Metzger (MIT Press, 2017), Why Character Education? (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017), Patriotic Education in a Global Age, with historian Charles Dorn (University of Chicago Press, 2018), and a series of papers on populism, civic friendship, and the rural-urban opportunity gap. He is editor of the Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Education, co-editor of the History and Philosophy of Education Series for the University of Chicago Press, and a past editor of the journal Theory and Research in Education. His work in philosophy of education, social and political philosophy, Ancient Greek philosophy, ethics, moral psychology, and psychometrics, has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, Andrew Mellon Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and Templeton Foundation. 

Alexandra Oprea is a political philosopher with a specialization in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE). She is a lecturer at the Australian National University. Her research interests include education policy, collective decision-making, institutional design, and the history of political thought.

You can find out more about Alex and her research below:

https://alexandraoprea.com/

You can follow her on Twitter at @AOprea_PPE.

If you would like to read more on the topic of conversation here on the Freedom Center Today, you can find her recent paper, "Inadequate for Democracy: How (not) to Distribute Education"

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1470594X20924667

Fredrik DeBoer is a writer and academic with a PhD from Purdue University. His writing has appeared in such places as The New York Times, Harper's, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Politico, Playboy, New Republic, Foreign Policy, n+1, and Jacobin. You can find his first book, The Cult of Smart below:

https://www.amazon.com/Seed-Soil-Confronting-Differences-Educational/dp/1250200377

Dr. Cordsci is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Regional Economic and Enterprise Development (CREED), and an Affiliate Scholar at the Classical Liberal Institute at the New York University School of Law. Carlo joined Sheffield University Management School in May 2019 after completing his PhD at the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield.

Find out more about Carlos:

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/management/people/research-associates/carlo-cordasco,

Follow him on Twitter:

@CarloLCordasco