Founder to Speak on Education Reform

On January 24, 2016, Great Connections Founder and President Marsha Familaro Enright presented a guest lecture on “The Collectivist Control of Education and What Education Could Look Like in a Free Society” at the Atlanta Objectivist Society. To the packed room of people concerned about the destructive direction of education, Ms. Enright’s presentation generated a stream of […]

Event: The State and Future of Education

A talk by Marsha Familaro Enright, educational entrepreneur, author of the last chapter, “Liberating Education” in Common Ground on Common Core, editor of Ayn Rand Explained, Lead Developer and Instructor, The Great Connections Seminar for High School and College Students, and Founder and President of Council Oak Montessori School in Chicago for over 26 years. Many of us are aware of […]

The Long Game of the New Left

“After the Vietnam War, a lot of us didn’t just crawl back into our literary cubicles; we stepped into academic positions. With the war over, our visibility was lost, and it seemed for a while–to the unobservant–that we had disappeared. Now we have tenure, and the work of reshaping the universities has begun in earnest.” […]

Does Common Ground Exist on Education?

In this 3 minute audio from Resounding Books, RIFI President Marsha Familaro Enright, discusses how people across the political spectrum can unite to reject the worst in education. As well, she discusses how students in the U.S. do in relation to their international peers – with some surprising conclusions.

Does Local Control in Education Still Exist?

In this 3 minute audio from Resounding Books Great Connections President Marsha Familaro Enright discusses whether parents, teachers, and administrators still have control over education.

The Push for “Standards” in Education

What is the consequence of the push for “standards” in education? Hear RIFI president, Marsha Familaro Enright talk about the issues for Resounding Books here.

Education in the United States

What is the purpose of education? Is “school choice” the same as a free market in education? Could education be provided entirely by the free market, with no public schools? Do we have a stratified education system? These are some of the issues addressed in Kirsten Lombard’s interview of Great Connections president, Marsha Familaro Enright, […]

Would All Children Be Educated in a Free Market?

Here’s another 5-minute clip from Kirsten Lombard, editor of Resounding Books, in which she and I talk about whether all children could be educated if there were no public schools, and how that might happen. Common Ground on Common Core, published by Resounding Books, is a collection of 17 essays from across the political spectrum, analyzing this […]

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