This week we’re sharing the Education Policy Panel from CLT’s 2025 Annapolis Summit. CLT’s CFO, Noah Tyler, leads Dcn. Harrison Garlick, Adam Kissel, and Bill Mattox in a conversation about the challenges and tensions they’ve navigated in education policy, where they’ve experienced success, and where things need to go from here. We’re looking forward to more engaging conversations next year at the 2027 Summit!

Dcn. Garlick is Chancellor and In-House Counsel for the Diocese of Tulsa and Eastern Oklahoma and co-host of Ascend: The Great Books Podcast. Adam Kissel is a Visiting Fellow on Higher Education Reform for The Heritage Foundation, Senior Fellow at the Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy, Chairman of the West Virginia Professional Charter School Board, Visiting Scholar for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and a Visiting Lecturer at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Bill Mattox is an award-winning writer and the Director of the J. Stanley Marshall Center for Education at The James Madison Institute.

References:

• Risk, Uncertainty and Profit by Frank H. Knight
• Slacking: A Guide to Ivy League Miseducation by Adam Kissel, Rachel Alexander Cambre, and Madison Marino Doan

In this episode Jeremy Tate speaks with Dr. Liliana Worth, Founding Head of School at the first Jewish classical elementary school in America, Hadar Jewish Classical Academy. Dr. Worth has also recently joined CLT's Board of Academic Advisors. She shares about how her rich educational background led her to where she is today and how Hadar is now successfully harmonizing Hebrew immersion, classical learning, and moral formation.

References:

• Learn more about Hadar Jewish Classical Academy at https://hadaracademy.org
• The Red and the Black by Stendhal
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

In this episode, Jeremy speaks with Dr. Ryan Lister, Dean of Students at Boyce College, the undergraduate school of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. They talk about how Boyce's new Master of Arts in Classical Christian Education forms classical teachers to think carefully about integrating the moral and theological dimensions of education into their work with students.

References:

• Norms and Nobility by David V. Hicks
• Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning by Charles T. Evans and Robert Littlejohn
• Augustine’s Confessions
• Holiness by John Webster
• The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
  The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness: The Path to the True Christian Joy by Timothy Keller
• Learn more: boycecollege.com/macce