Josh Cowen: History of School Vouchers

Josh Cowen discusses his new book, The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers. Prof. Cowen traces voucher history startingvwith the ideological roots as a reaction to the Brown decision to how Christian nationalists use vouchers today to weaken the free exercise clause, As challenges to vouchers continue, the defense and advocacy moved into culture war rhetoric to distract from the dismal metrics about voucher success. Josh Cowen is a professor of education…

Stephanie R. Logan: School Vouchers and Charters

Stephanie R. Logan is an associate professor of elementary and multicultural education. Prof. Logan discusses the history of public school vouchers and the rise of charter schools in the United States. The discussion begins in 1954 and continues through the 21st Century by looking at her 2018 article, "A Historical and Political Look at the Modern School Choice Movement."

Derek W. Black: History of Public Education

Derek Black is a Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law and the Ernest F. Hollings Chair in Constitutional Law. Professor Derek W. Black discusses his new book, Schoolhouse Burning: Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy. We begin with John Adams and Thomas Jefferson's personal interest in founding a national public education system

Jonathan Wells: Southern Manifesto

Jonathan Daniel Wells, Ph.D., is Professor of History in the Residential College, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and the Department of History at the University of Michigan.. His most recent books are Blind no More: African American Resistance, Free Soil Politics, and the Coming of the Civil War and The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War. Prof. Wells points to the Fugitive Slave Act and Northern resistance to the Federal Law as…