Corey DeAngelis Wants to Fund Students, Not Systems
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Guests: Kathleen O'Toole, Corey A. DeAngelis & Kelly Scott Franklin
Host Scot Bertram talks with Kathleen O'Toole, Assistant Provost for K-12 Education at Hillsdale College, about the difficulties classical schools face in finding locations for their schools and her article "The Hidden Barrier to School Choice." Corey DeAngelis, senior fellow at The American Federation for Children and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, explains the roots of the parent-led movement to reform our education system and discusses his new book The Parent Revolution. And Kelly Scott Franklin, associate professor of English at Hillsdale College, returns for his series of Great Moments in the Great Books. This time, he dives into the etymology sections of Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
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| 0:00.0 | From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country. |
| 0:24.7 | They prioritize their own interest to stay at home and work in their pajamas at the expense of millions of children and that hurt kids in a lot of ways, |
| 0:34.5 | mentally, physically, socially, and emotionally. |
| 0:38.7 | But the silver lining was that families got to see what was happening in the classroom. |
| 0:43.5 | This is your host, Scott Bertram. |
| 0:45.6 | Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. |
| 0:51.5 | That was Dr. Corey DeAngelis, author of the new book, The Parent Revolution, |
| 0:56.5 | Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Runing Our Schools. We'll talk in-depth with Corey |
| 1:02.0 | DeAngelus about that book a little bit later on in today's program. First, we're joined by Dr. Kathleen |
| 1:07.5 | O'Toole. Dr. O'Toole is Assistant Provost for K-12 Education at Hillsdale College. |
| 1:13.6 | Dr. O'Toole, thanks for joining us. |
| 1:15.7 | Hey, thanks for having me. |
| 1:17.0 | We are talking today about a recent essay you wrote over at the Washington Examiner, |
| 1:21.2 | Washingtonexameter.com, The Hidden Barrier to School Choice. |
| 1:26.6 | We've talked in the past, and I've talked with some of our K-12 |
| 1:29.6 | leaders as well. One of the toughest tasks for any new charter is finding space, finding facilities |
| 1:36.8 | for that school. Why is that such a challenge generally? Yeah, it's an amazing thing, and it's, |
| 1:43.5 | it's not something that you would expect to be as much of a challenge as it is. |
| 1:47.4 | When we work with a founding group, they're rightly focused on the most important things, finding a facility or finding a leader for the school. |
| 1:56.7 | I mean, after all, that's the most important thing. |
| 1:59.2 | And then thinking about attracting families, if it's a private school or a charter, and then thinking about putting together the charter application, getting approval from the state. |
| 2:10.6 | But often school groups that surmount those heavy obstacles are faced by a third that they did not expect to be so difficult. |
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