Education, Class, Race, and Politics with Ian Rowe

In today’s episode of the Global Wire Conversation, Ralph is
talking to Ian Rowe of the American Enterprise Institute.
  Mr. Rowe is a resident fellow at the American
Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on education and upward
mobility, family formation, and adoption. Mr. Rowe is also the
cofounder of Vertex Partnership Academies, a new network of
character-based International Baccalaureate high schools opening
in the Bronx in 2022; the chairman of the board of Spence-Chapin,
a nonprofit adoption services organization; and the cofounder of
the National Summer School Initiative. He concurrently serves as
a senior visiting fellow at the Woodson Center and a writer for
the 1776 Unites Campaign.  Make sure to follow his work and
commentary on Twitter at https://twitter.com/IanVRowe​ and at AEI
​https://www.aei.org/profile/ian-rowe/​ In our conversation we
cover the role of education in the empowerment of socially
disadvantaged communities, whether a value-free education is
possible or even desireable, the impact of Critical Race Theory
as well as an emerging new group of African-American
Intellectuals that defend classical liberal values.