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Dr. Helen Baxendale on Great Hearts Classical Liberal Arts Charter SchoolsNovember 6, 2024 - 12:08 pm
Pioneer Commends MA Governor-elect Healey’s Step Toward Greater Transparency
/in Better Government, Featured, Press Releases: Government, Transparency /by Editorial StaffPioneer Institute commends Governor-elect Maura Healey for choosing not to claim a public records exemption for the governor’s office. Governor-elect Healey also pledged to support legislation that would curb exemptions claimed by the legislative and judiciary branches of state government.
UK’s Prof. Michael Slater on Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, and A Christmas Carol
/in Academic Standards, Featured, Podcast /by Editorial StaffThis week on “The Learning Curve,” co-host Gerard Robinson and guest co-host Mary Connaughton talk with Prof. Michael Slater, Emeritus Professor of Victorian Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, and the world’s foremost expert on Charles Dickens and his works. They discuss some of the main elements of Dickens’ brilliant, prolific, and complicated life, as the 19th century’s most influential, best-selling writer of memorable works, from Oliver Twist to Great Expectations.
Eight Billion Minds: Unsustainable Population Bomb or Infinite Resource?
/in Economic Opportunity, Featured, Podcast Hubwonk /by Editorial StaffHubwonk host Joe Selvaggi talks with Cato Scholar and author Marian Tupy about his new book, Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet, focusing on the contrast in policy perspectives between those who see humans consumers of finite resources and those who recognize the unlimited potential of human ingenuity.
Study Urges Massachusetts to Embrace Innovative School Models
/in Featured, Press Releases, Press Releases: Choice Programs, Press Releases: Education, Press Releases: Homeschooling, Press Releases: Online Learning, Press Releases: School Choice, School Choice, Virtual Schools /by Editorial StaffA new policy brief from Pioneer Institute urges Massachusetts policymakers to encourage the proliferation and progress of non-traditional models that offer families creative, flexible, personalized and low-cost private education options.
Senegal’s Magatte Wade on Education & Economic Freedom in Africa
/in Featured, Podcast /by Editorial StaffThis week on “The Learning Curve,” Cara and Gerard talk with Magatte Wade, the founder & CEO of Skin Is Skin and an advocate for African dignity and prosperity. Her forthcoming book is “The Heart of the Cheetah.”