Free shipping on all orders over $40.
Jason Bedrick
JASON BEDRICK is a research fellow for the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Bedrick is the coeditor and coauthor of two books, including Educational Freedom: Remembering Andrew Coulson, Debating His Ideas and Religious Liberty and Education: A Case Study of Yeshivas vs. New York. His writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Fox News, Politico, National Review, National Affairs, the Journal of School Choice, and Education Next among many other publications. Bedrick previously served as a legislator in the New Hampshire House of Representatives and was an education policy research fellow at the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy in New Hampshire. Bedrick received his master’s degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he was a fellow at the Taubman Center for State and Local Government. Bedrick resides in Phoenix with his wife and five children.
Titles by this Author
Related Titles
Peter Wood offers a point-by-point response to the New York Times‘s 1619 Project and argues that the proper starting point for the American story is 1620, with the signing of the Mayflower Compact aboard ship before the Pilgrims set foot upon a new land.
In Where Harvard Went Wrong, one professor stands up to a whole faculty, offering arguments rather than evasions and equivocation, keeping as his lodestar the principle that education must conserve the tradition of learning as well as progress beyond the present. This book is meant for both parties—a guide for conservatives and a gentle, friendly reproach to liberals.
- Read More
- Coming Soon
The Golden Thread, Volume II begins in 1500, when the Protestant Reformation brought an end of the Roman Catholic Church’s dominance over European states. It then turns to the rise of imperial powers that swiftly circled the globe, and to the explosion of intellectual, economic, and technological advancements sparked by the Enlightenment. In its closing chapters, The Golden Thread engages with the most significant questions facing the West today.
Ivy League universities can no longer be trusted to produce well-educated students. In Slacking, Adam Kissel, Rachel Alexander Cambre, and Madison Marino Doan dedicate one chapter to each of the Ivy League colleges, providing specific information about the courses, content, and core requirements that serious students need to succeed at each one.
From its beginnings America was a land of hope, a magnet for those seeking a new beginning for themselves. The American Founders created a unique plan of government designed to realize those ideals. Implementing the plan was not easy, though, and a bloody civil war would push the American experiment to the breaking point — and to a new birth of freedom.
Though many people know that American universities now offer an inadequate and incoherent education from a leftist viewpoint that excludes moderate and conservative ideas, few people understand how much this matters, how it happened, how bad it is, or what can be done about it. In The University We Need, Professor Warren Treadgold shows the crucial role of universities in American culture and politics, the causes of their decline in administrative bloat and inept academic hiring, the effects of the decline on teaching and research, and some possible ways of reversing the decline.