Kathleen O'Toole Defines American Classical Education
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Guests: Kathleen O'Toole & Carrie Gress
Host Scot Bertram is joined by Kathleen O'Toole, Assistant Provost for K-12 Education at Hillsdale College, to discuss the rising national popularity of charter schools and to more clearly define American classical education. And Carrie Gress, fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a scholar at the Institute for Human Ecology at The Catholic University of America, delves into the roots of Feminism and her new book The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us.
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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. |
| 0:24.6 | The school becomes known in the community because the students who attend the school are different than many other students in the community. |
| 0:35.6 | They know how to have a conversation for more than a few |
| 0:39.1 | minutes. They think of their lives as important and worth planning out and treating with seriousness. |
| 0:48.3 | This is your host, Scott Bertram, and that's Dr. Kathleen O'Toole, Assistant Provost for K-12 Education at Hillsdale College. |
| 0:56.8 | We talk with Dr. O'Toole today about the continued and growing interest in charter schools |
| 1:01.4 | and better define exactly what is at American Classical Education. |
| 1:07.2 | Dr. O'Toole, thanks so much for joining us. |
| 1:09.6 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:10.6 | Please to have you back as we discuss these topics, just as... Dr. O'Toole, thanks so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:17.4 | Pleased to have you back as we discuss these topics, just as the school year is beginning in most of the country. |
| 1:26.1 | We want to talk today about the increased interest in charter schools and perhaps also better to find people what a classical charter is. |
| 1:29.1 | I wanted to start, though, with the interest in charters. |
| 1:37.4 | We saw a spike in interest and educational options generally during, immediately after COVID. |
| 1:41.1 | Has that trend continued as far as what you can see? |
| 1:48.1 | Absolutely. Since COVID and, you know, preceding COVID, but especially heightened by COVID, has been this school choice wave. |
| 1:50.9 | And parents across the country are more attuned to what's happening inside K-12 schools. |
| 1:58.6 | And legislatures and other policymakers are paying a lot of attention to new ways |
| 2:05.2 | to increase parents and families' ability to choose an education for their child. |
| 2:11.4 | So we're seeing that in legislation and in local school districts, too. |
| 2:15.4 | Are there any particular areas or states in which we've seen action movement in the past six months, |
| 2:20.8 | 12 months or so that parents might want to be aware of? |
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