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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

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).

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 follow her on Twitter at @AOprea_PPE.

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.