{"id":9522,"date":"2026-04-15T12:49:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/?p=9522"},"modified":"2026-04-27T20:07:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:07:52","slug":"why-school-choice-is-important-keri-d-ingraham-on-pioneer-institutes-the-learning-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/2026\/04\/15\/why-school-choice-is-important-keri-d-ingraham-on-pioneer-institutes-the-learning-curve\/","title":{"rendered":"Why School Choice Is Important: Keri D. Ingraham on Pioneer Institute&#8217;s The Learning Curve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On April 15, Keri D. Ingraham appeared on the Pioneer Institute&#8217;s education podcast, The Learning Curve, co-hosted by Professor Albert Cheng and Walter Blanks. Dr. Ingraham explains why she is passionate about giving kids school choice, the dismal state of public education in the United States, the importance of choice in education, how school choice improves learning outcomes even at public schools, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons alignwide is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-align-center wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/pioneerinstitute.org\/podcast-episode\/discovery-institutes-dr-keri-ingraham-on-school-choice-edu-federalism\/\">Listen to the Full Episode Here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 15, Keri D. Ingraham appeared on the Pioneer Institute&#8217;s education podcast, The Learning Curve, co-hosted by Professor Albert Cheng and Walter Blanks. Dr. Ingraham explains why she is passionate about giving kids school choice, the dismal state of public education in the United States, the importance of choice in education, how school choice improves learning outcomes even at public schools, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":284,"featured_media":9523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[2996,2412,78,205,1445,1294,2993,2994,124,74,1472,2995,209,2997],"coauthors":[1059],"class_list":["post-9522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-school-choice","tag-albert-cheng","tag-audio-interview","tag-k-12","tag-k-12-education","tag-keri-d-ingraham","tag-keri-ingraham","tag-learning-outcomes","tag-pioneer-institute","tag-public-school","tag-school-choice","tag-teachers-unions-2","tag-the-learning-curve","tag-u-s-department-of-education","tag-walter-blanks"],"acf":[],"author_names":["American Center for Transforming Education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9522"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9522"}],"wp:action-assign-author":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/9522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}