Tag: Robert Pondiscio

Robert Pondiscio: Teachers and the right

Editor’s note: Pondiscio is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on K–12 education, curriculum, teaching, school choice, and charter schooling. This commentary, published here in its entirety, first appeared on nationalaffairs.com. There’s a story often told about Ronald Reagan who, in 1980, hired Lionel Sosa, a[Read More…]

Choice, curriculum and a promising path to better readers

LEESBURG, Fla. – It’s not that Theresa Chang’s sons, Liam and Joshua, didn’t like books before. It’s just that now they’re infatuated to the point of feuding. The fourth-grader and fifth-grader are gravitating to more books, more advanced books, and yes, sometimes even squabbling over books one or the other[Read More…]