Jim Peyser, the former Massachusetts Secretary of Education, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the recent decision by Massachusetts voters to remove the high school graduation requirement for students taking the state's test, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System.

Derrell Bradford, the president of 50CAN, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the state of charter schools and school choice in the aftermath of the 2024 elections.

Daniel Weisberg, First Deputy Chancellor, New York City Department of Education, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the NYC Reads program, which aims to ensure that all New York City students become strong readers.

Clint Bolick, the 44th Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how the Supreme Court has interpreted the clauses of the First Amendment of the Constitution, and its impact on religious education in the United States.

Michael Goldstein, the founder of Match Charter Schools and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Education Policy Research, Harvard Graduate School of Education, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the shift in how charter schools have operated in the past decade.

Michael Hartney, a fellow at the Hoover Institution and assistant professor of political science at Boston College, Joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the influence of teachers-union endorsements on school-board elections.

"The Politics of Teachers' Union Endorsements," co-written with Vladimir Kogan, is available now.

https://edworkingpapers.com/ai23-841

Macke Raymond, a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and director of the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a report from the Education Futures Council, which looks to identify and remove barriers to student success within the K-12 educational system.

"Ours to Solve, Once — And for All" is available now from Hoover.org.

https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/2024-10/EFC_OursToSolve_Web_101824.pdf

Dr. Jefferson Pestronk, Executive Director, Modern States Education Alliance, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the platform, which serves as an on-ramp to college for thousands of students.

Learn more at ModernStates.org.

The co-leader of the Eversheds Sutherland Business and Commercial Litigation team, Rocco E. Testani, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss recent education adequacy cases in states, how spending has increased in that time, and whether these cases will continue to be brought.

Wolfgang Frimmel, an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Johannes Kepler University Linz, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Frimmel's latest research, which examines the causal effect of parental divorce on student’s long-term outcomes in education.

"How does parental divorce affect children’s long-term outcomes?," co-written with Martin Halla and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, is available now from the Journal of Public Economics.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272724001373