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Healthcare
May 12, 2014

2014 Hewitt Health Care Lecture Keynote Speaker: Tom Miller

Tom Miller is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He spoke at the Pioneer Institute’s 2014 Hewitt Health Care Lecture: “What Just Happened and What’s Ahead for the Affordable Care Act,” May 6, 2014.
Healthcare
May 12, 2014

2014 Hewitt Health Care Lecture: Uwe Reinhardt

Uwe Reinhardt speaks at the Pioneer Institute’s 2014 Hewitt Health Care Lecture: “What Just Happened & What’s Ahead for the Affordable Care Act.” Reinhardt is the James Madison Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and...
American Citizenship
March 31, 2014

"Remember the Ladies": Cokie Roberts, Keynote

Education
March 27, 2014

Audio: Lead Mathematics Standards-Writer William McCallum

These audio clips are from Professor William McCallum’s remarks on college readiness in Common Core’s mathematics standards at a meeting sponsored by the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America in San Francisco, California, in January 2010. Viewers might also...
Education
March 6, 2014

Setting the Record Straight on Common Core Part 2

Pioneer Institute has been a prime mover in the debate over Common Core national education standards.  Pioneer was among the first to call attention to the nature of the threat, producing rigorous research and relentlessly raising public awareness. Last month, Pioneer released the...
Education
November 18, 2013

Going Beyond in Lawrence, Mass.

Pioneer Institute believes that all kids deserve access to a great education. That’s why we have always supported choices for parents and students, whether through interdistrict programs, vocational-technical schools, private and parochial schools, or high-quality charter schools. Earlier this year, we visited...
Education
November 8, 2013

Jim Stergios on Fox & Friends: Common Core lessons politicize classrooms

Jim Stergios discussed political propaganda in Common Core lessons for 5th grade students on Fox & Friends (Nov. 8, 2013). View his interview with Elizabeth Hasselbeck below. Here’s the original Fox report.
American Citizenship
October 2, 2013

Steve Forbes - Keynote Speaker, 2013 Better Government Competition

Steve Forbes, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes magazine, delivered the keynote address at Pioneer Institute’s 2013 Better Government Competition Awards ceremony on September 30th in Boston.
Education
June 27, 2013

Thomas F. Birmingham, Former Massachusetts Senate President

This video features Thomas F. Birmingham, Former Massachusetts Senate President and co-author of the 1993 Massachusetts Education Reform Law. He was a Keynote speaker at the event, “20 Years of Education Reform: 1993 MERA, Its Legacy, and Its Future.”
Education
June 27, 2013

The Honorable William F. Weld, Former Massachusetts Governor

This video features the Honorable William F. Weld, former Massachusetts Governor and co-author of the 1993 Massachusetts Education Reform Law. Governor Weld gave one of the two Keynote addresses at the forum, “20 Years of Education Reform: 1993 MERA, Its Legacy, and...