Show-me Institute Podcast

Neal McCluskey is the director of Cato’s Center for Educational Freedom. He is the author of the book Feds in the Classroom: How Big Government Corrupts, Cripples, and Compromises American Education and is co‐​editor of Educational Freedom: Remembering Andrew Coulson, Debating His Ideas and Unprofitable Schooling: Examining Causes of, and Fixes for, America’s Broken Ivory Tower. He also maintains Cato’s Public Schooling Battle Map, an interactive database of values and identity‐​based conflicts in public schools, and is on the editorial advisory board of The Line, a journal promoting civil discourse in K‑12 policy debates. His writings have appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Forbes. In addition to his written work, McCluskey has appeared on PBS, CNN, the Fox News Channel, and numerous radio programs. Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: showmeinstitute.org The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

On May 4, 2020, The Show-Me Institute hosted a virtual town hall on the topic of How to Reopen America with guest speaker Dr. Arthur B. Laffer and Senator Jim Talent Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org/

Corianna Baier is an Analyst at the Show-Me Institute. Corianna grew up in Michigan, where she earned her B.S. in Economics from Hillsdale College. She then earned her M.A. in Economics from Troy University. Learn more about the Show-Me Institute:https://showmeinstitute.org/ The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

On April 3, 2020 the Show-Me Institute hosted a Telephone Town Hall on Economic Recovery After a Pandemic with guest speakers Andy Puzder and Senator Jim Talent. Speaker: Andy Puzder is the author of The Capitalist Comeback, a Senior Fellow at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy and for more than 16 years he was the CEO of CKE Restaurants, the owner of the Carl’s Jr. and Hardees quick service restaurant chains. He was President Trump’s first nominee for Secretary of Labor and is a frequent guest on cable news and a speaker at colleges and universities. Moderated by: Senator Jim Talent brings over 30 years of government and political experience including service in both chambers of Congress. He is a nationally-recognized leader on military affairs whose counsel is frequently sought by administrations and members of the House and Senate on both sides of the political aisle. Senator Talent has worked for decades on readiness issues including military preparedness, combating bio-weapons and re

Michael Q. McShane is Director of National Research at EdChoice and a Senior Fellow of Education Policy at the Show-Me Institute. His analyses and commentary have been published widely in the media, including in the Huffington Post, National Affairs, USA Today, and The Washington Post. He has also been featured in education-specific outlets such as Teachers College Commentary, Education Week, Phi Delta Kappan, and Education Next. In addition to authoring numerous white papers, McShane has had academic work published in Education Finance and Policy and the Journal of School Choice. He is the editor of New and Better Schools (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015), the author of Education and Opportunity (AEI Press, 2014), and coeditor of Teacher Quality 2.0 (Harvard Education Press, 2014) and Common Core Meets Education Reform (Teachers College Press, 2013). Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org/ The Show-Me Institute Podcast is Produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org/ On March 27, 2020 the SHow-Me Institute hosted a telephone town hall on the coronavirus pandemic with guest speakers Colonel Randall Larsen and Senator Jim Talent. Speakers: Colonel Randall Larsen, USAF (ret) serves as the National Security Advisor at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, a position he has held since 2005. After a distinguished career of service in the USAF, Colonel Larsen became a leader in homeland security and in particular in the area of defense from a bio attack. In that capacity he has become the go-to expert on pandemic resilience for think tanks, universities, the press, and political leaders of both Parties. He was the CEO of the Bipartisan WMD Terrorism Research Center which produced the Bio-Response Report Card, the first and only stem to stern study of America’s pandemic resilience. It was and remains the gold standard for epidemiologists and public health authorities. He is the author of a number of

Kevin Erdmann is a Visiting Fellow at the Mercatus Center. Erdmann is currently engaged in two book projects with Mercatus on housing finance, land-use restrictions, and monetary policy. His first book, Shut Out (Rowman & Littlefiled, 2019) offers a contrarian theory on the causes of the housing boom and bust. Find Shut Out here: https://amzn.to/2PCJ6bd The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Neal McCluskey is the director of Cato’s Center for Educational Freedom. He is the author of the book Feds in the Classroom: How Big Government Corrupts, Cripples, and Compromises American Education and is co‐​editor of Educational Freedom: Remembering Andrew Coulson, Debating His Ideas and Unprofitable Schooling: Examining Causes of, and Fixes for, America’s Broken Ivory Tower. He also maintains Cato’s Public Schooling Battle Map, an interactive database of values and identity‐​based conflicts in public schools, and is on the editorial advisory board of The Line, a journal promoting civil discourse in K‑12 policy debates. His writings have appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Forbes. In addition to his written work, McCluskey has appeared on PBS, CNN, the Fox News Channel, and numerous radio programs. McCluskey holds an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, where he double‐​majored in government and English, has a master’s degree in political science

Corey A. DeAngelis is the director of school choice at Reason Foundation and an adjunct scholar at Cato Institute. Follow Corey on twitter @DeAngelisCorey Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org/ The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

David Stokes is the Executive Director of the Great Rivers Habitat Alliance (GRHA):http://grha.org/ Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org/ The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Missouri recently received its latest grades on “The Nation’s Report Card,” (an assessment given to 4th- and 8th-graders in each state every two years by the U.S. Department of Education), and the news isn’t good. Read more from Dr. Susan Pendergrass: https://bit.ly/2PxRbgD James V. Shuls is an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies at the University of Missouri–St. Louis and Distinguished Fellow in Education Policy at the Show-Me Institute. His work has been featured in numerous media outlets, including Phi Delta Kappan, Social Science Quarterly, Education Week, The Rural Educator, Educational Policy, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Learn more about the Show-Me Institue: https://showmeinstitute.org/ The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Learn more about Virginia's new book School Choice: A Legacy to Keep: https://www.amazon.com/School-Choice-Virginia-Walden-Ford/dp/0825309395/ Watch the trailer for MISS VIRGINIA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mELLiJrYB5U Virginia Walden Ford is one of America’s leading advocates for parent empowerment. As a student, a mother, an advocate, and a grandmother, Virginia has spent her life fighting to create new educational opportunities for children and families. Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

More information on Andrew's upcoming book - The School Choice Roadmap: 7 Steps to Finding the Right School for Your Child - https://amzn.to/2qCJnla Andrew Campanella has served as president of National School Choice Week since 2012. Andrew is also the author of the forthcoming book The School Choice Roadmap: 7 Steps to Finding the Right School for Your Child, which offers practical advice to parents in navigating the process of exploring their options and choosing the best fit for their families. More information can be found at schoolchoiceroadmap.com Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: showmeinstitute.org/ The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Crosby Kemper III is executive director of the Kansas City Public Library; the Chair of the Schools, Health, Libraries, and Broadband (SHLB) coalition; and former CEO of UMB Financial Corporation. He co-founded and is chairman of the Show-Me Institute. Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org/ The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

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Segment from Pete Mundo Mornings on KCMO-AM, Kansas City, MO Listen live here: www.kcmotalkradio.com/ Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: showmeinstitute.org/

Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org/ Learn more about R Street Institute: https://www.rstreet.org/ Shoshana Weissmann manages the Institute’s social media and email marketing, in addition to contributing graphics and video skills. She also works on occupational licensing reform and other issues, and has written for various publications, including The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. Shoshana most recently managed digital communications for Opportunity Lives, a group that highlighted positive stories and policy solutions. Before that, she managed social media and wrote for The Weekly Standard. Earlier in her career, she managed digital communications for the America Rising PAC, where her strategy was highlighted in a piece that appeared in The New York Times. The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Segment from The Marc Cox Morning Show-KFTK, St. Louis, MO Listen to the full episode: https://bit.ly/31PCRFM Patrick Tuohey is the Director of Municipal Policy at the Show-Me Institute: https://bit.ly/2m5L8ER The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a great piece by Jacob Barker on an effort by the city of Wentzville to partner with a private developer to finance and build a rec center it has long wanted. The outrage is that the private firm is connected to Stan Kroenke, owner of the St. Louis Los Angeles Rams, perhaps the most hated man in the St. Louis region. The rest of the piece catalogues the standard objections to special taxing districts, which in this case is a Community Improvement District (CID). They include: unfair taxation, developer subsidies, a blight finding so that the developer is even less constrained in spending the CID funds, and the lack of transparency in the tax collection and spending. While everything in the Post-Dispatch story is true, none of it is unique. Kroenke’s involvement may ma

Segment from The Gary Nolan Show on 93.9 The Eagle, Columbia, MO Listen to the full show here:https://939theeagle.com/the-gary-nolan-show/ Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org/

Read Dr. Biggs' article in The Hill:https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/448431-401ks-can-fill-the-pension-gap Andrew G. Biggs is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies Social Security reform, state and local government pensions, and public sector pay and benefits. Before joining AEI, Biggs was the principal deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA), where he oversaw SSA’s policy research efforts. In 2005, as an associate director of the White House National Economic Council, he worked on Social Security reform. In 2001, he joined the staff of the President’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security. Biggs has been interviewed on radio and television as an expert on retirement issues and on public vs. private sector compensation. He has published widely in academic publications as well as in daily newspapers such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. He has also testified before Congress on numerous occasions. I