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/