Jack Johnson Pannell

Micro school founders: Low enrollment is almost never the market, the economy, or “bad timing.” It’s a founder problem or a boundaries problem. Believe in your mission, & hold lines. Clear standards attract committed families. Comfort zones don’t. Own it. Tighten up. Build.

Ideal homeschool setup: The boy working through the Good and the Beautiful by hand. The girl doing Synthesis math on the iPad.

Gambling companies spend billions targeting boys under 18 because they know it works. They’re grooming the next generation of problem gamblers and boys deserve protection from industries trying to exploit them

It’s been 2,783 days since Katie Hobbs participated in a debate as a candidate. Should Arizonans see her in a debate?

20 years ago, all classroom readings were from books, practice and tests were on paper, writing happened with a pencil, examples were on whiteboards We can, just, go back to that.

BREAKING: New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced she will opt in to Trump's new school choice program. She is the second Democrat Governor to announce they will opt in. That makes 30 states so far.

The Florida teachers union has filed a lawsuit seeking to strip nearly a million students of the education of their choice. The union wants to eliminate Florida’s school choice scholarship program (serving more than 500,000 students) and charter school program (serving more than 400,000). We will stand up for the parents and students and defend these programs!

I wrote an article called "How to Give Your Child an Expensive Private Education for $3,000 a Year." College students tutoring at $30 an hour, divided among five families, comes to $5 an hour per child. The economics of good education are not what people assume.

When I was at Harvard, the sociologist David Riesman took an interest in me and personally arranged my transfer to St. John's College in Santa Fe. At Harvard, I sat in large lecture halls listening to brilliant people talk. At St. John's, I sat around a table with fifteen students reading Euclid, Plato, and Dostoevsky, and we argued about what those texts actually meant. That experience rewired my brain. I learned that understanding doesn't come from being told the answer. It comes from wrestling with hard questions alongside other people who are also wrestling. The tutor at St. John's doesn't lecture. They ask questions. They let the silence sit. Their only role is to ask questions, not to lecture. It’s the practice I've spent my entire career bringing into schools and classrooms. I watched what happened to students, including myself, when the conversation was real and the texts were worthwhile, and I've been sharing this tradition with young people my entire life. Riesman saw something in a working-class kid and pointed me toward a tradition of learning that changed my life. I've been trying to pay that forward ever since.