About The Author

Matthew Ladner

Matthew Ladner is executive editor of NextSteps. He has written numerous studies on school choice, charter schools and special education reform, and his articles have appeared in Education Next; the Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice; and the British Journal of Political Science. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and received a master's degree and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Houston. He lives in Phoenix with his wife and three children.
11/13/24
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Vice President Harris received more votes from every generation of Americans except Gen X, but as it happens the loss...
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11/05/24
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Today is election day in America. In the immortal words of C3PO “Thank the Maker!” I do not know about...
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10/30/24
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Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has calculated a worker shortage index for...
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10/22/24
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Francis Ford Coppola shot a scene for Apocalypse Now set in a plantation owned by die-hard French imperialists holding out...
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10/15/24
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Sad news this week: Two great warriors for education choice, Institute for Justice co-founder Chip Mellor and the Walton Family...
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10/15/24
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Education Next published a piece recently by Holly Korbey called The Tutoring Revolution, which reads in part: Recent research suggests...
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10/08/24
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The Wall Street Journal ran an article which had your humble author giggling for hours afterwards called Sorry Harvard Everyone...
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10/01/24
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  Years ago, education reformers coined the phrase “Big Learning Organization Bureaucracies aka the BLOB” to describe the collection of...
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09/24/24
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  Recently I watched a presentation about the United States military. We face a very real if under-discussed possibility of...
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09/17/24
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The Japanese art of pottery, kintsugi, uses gold in the process of reconstituting something broken. Rather than attempting to conceal...
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