Greg Dolan

Current @used; Formerly a History Teacher, advocate for @CathEdPartners & @USCCB, and staffer in US Congress.

[Greg Dolan @GregFDolan]

A new era in educational freedom. Don't let the skeptics and Eeyores tell you otherwise. This is a big, beautiful program and anyone in favor of school choice should support and work to make implementation a success. Thanks @SchoolChoiceNow and allies!

[Tommy Schultz 🇺🇸 @Tommy_USA]

SCHOOL CHOICE details in the One Big Beautiful Bill. Absolutely historic day for the education freedom movement:

- Everyone in America can donate $1,700 to a scholarship group (501c3 charity) for a 100% federal income tax credit. 

- No annual aggregate tax credit cap.

- Permanent law, no sunset.

- Scholarship recipients must be under 300% of area median income (a HUD formula, covering 85-90% of families).

- Governors in each state must designate which scholarship groups can receive funds.

- Scholarship groups can cover any of the costs here:

[Greg Dolan @GregFDolan]

Dog bites man; water is wet. Story at 6:00!

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

The promise of ed tech: personalized learning, limitless possibilities, a device for every child.

The reality? @NBCNews’s @tylerkingkade found that more than 95% of 17,000+ YouTube videos viewed during school hours weren't educational.

[U.S. Department of Education @usedgov]

More choice. More opportunity. More education freedom.

@POTUS Education Freedom Tax Credit is putting families first.

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent]

More than five centuries ago, the son of a wool weaver from Genoa sailed westward to widen the boundaries of the known world. Across a vast and punishing Atlantic, the voyage exhausted the patience of its crew, but never the conviction of its captain. Christopher Columbus kept going.

Two hundred and fifty years after America’s founding, we still marvel at the restless spirit of discovery that revealed the New World to the Old. President Trump has defended Columbus against the radical left’s campaign to erase his legacy. Now, Columbus again stands where he belongs – within the great procession of figures who shaped our national story.

Happy Columbus Day. Sail On.

[Greg Dolan @GregFDolan]

Happy Christopher Columbus Day! Columbus is a world-historical figure, he should be an example to young men everywhere, especially in the Americas, for his courage. Our nation should celebrate him, without caveats, and his holiday should stand alone.

Pope Leo XIII extolled his virtues at length on the 400th anniversary of his voyage (excerpt in picture): https://t.co/Xv6KPkbd6J

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Sail On. Columbus Day is back. 🇺🇸

https://t.co/D1dD8acB2m

[Greg Dolan @GregFDolan]

Gov. Hochul opts-in to the Education Freedom Tax Credit: "After a careful review of the federal regulations, we believe this program has the potential to bring millions of additional dollars to New York students and families without taking a single dollar from public schools or our state or local budgets." https://t.co/m7Qar9gPEn

[Greg Dolan @GregFDolan]

For about 75 years, all the most famous Greeks lived as near-contemporaries in and around one city. It was a Golden Age for technology, philosophy, drama, politics - for all the bedrocks of civilization.

Our Secretary of State gets it and is an excellent messenger to the rest of us about that.

And that backdrop is awesome because of the technology and vision of Phidias, one of those Greeks we owe so much to.

[Department of State @StateDept]

SECRETARY RUBIO: For twenty-five centuries since, the Parthenon has stood. Empires have risen and fallen beneath its shadow.

And the progeny of the men who built it – the sons of Athens and Rome – have carried their civilization with them to the ends of the Earth.

Two and a half centuries after the founding of the American republic halfway across the world from where I stand now, I stand here today – as the Secretary of State of that republic, and as the great-grandson of settlers who arrived in the new world from Spain – I stand here to testify to a debt that no lapse of time, no distance of space, can ever extinguish.

[Classic Learning Test @CLT_Exam]

Ok, this is incredible.

A new classical Catholic high school just opened in Fairfax County (St. Jerome Institute) — this is what a serious education looks like:

– Phones collected at the door
– Every class is a seminar discussion
– 15-20 students seated facing one another
– Art and music are required, NOT elective
– Math class teaches "the intrinsic beauty of math"
– Entire curriculum is integrated: philosophical and theological questioning in every class

And here's the literature section of the reading list:

9th grade (Exodus & Odyssey):
– Homer, Odyssey
– Genesis
– Plato, Euthyphro and Apology
– Virgil, Aeneid
– Exodus
– Beowulf
– Song of Roland
– Gospel of Luke
– Plato, Phaedo and Crito
– Acts of the Apostles
– Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
– Wilder, Our Town

10th grade (God & Nature):
– Creation myths
– Plato, Timaeus and Symposium
– Aristotle, De Anima
– Plotinus
– Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, Bonaventure, Aquinas
– Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
– Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
– Descartes, Meditations
– Bacon, Newton, Darwin
– Berry, Wilder, Tolkien
– Tocqueville
– Benedict XVI
– Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
– Faulkner, The Bear

11th grade (God & the Human Person):
– Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
– Plato, Symposium
– Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
– Augustine, Confessions
– Shakespeare, Twelfth Night and King Lear
– Hobbes, Leviathan
– Swift, A Modest Proposal
– Austen, Pride and Prejudice
– Shelley, Frankenstein
– Hopkins
– O’Connor
– Martin Luther King Jr.
– Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
– John Paul II

12th grade (God & Society):
– Plato, Republic
– Dante, The Divine Comedy
– Aristotle, Politics
– Augustine, City of God
– Aquinas, De Regno
– Natural and human law
– Machiavelli, Hobbes
– Locke, Rousseau
– Marx and Engels
– Dignitatis Humanae, Evangelium Vitae, Centesimus Annus
– John Courtney Murray
– Leviticus
– Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
– The Declaration of Independence
– The Constitution
– The Federalist Papers

"They gain an in-depth knowledge of Western civilization from Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem through England and the founding of our own country."

[Greg Dolan @GregFDolan]

How did no one in Professional Ed Reform ever think of doing a podcast these last 30 years?

[Marc Porter Magee 🎓 @marcportermagee]

The first Sold a Story was crucial in fueling a huge push for the Science of Reading.

Now season 2 is poised to do the same for Direct Instruction.

[Secretary Linda McMahon @EDSecMcMahon]

Parents deserve the freedom to choose the education that best fits their children’s needs.

Thanks to today's proposed rules from @USTreasury the Education Freedom Tax Credit is closer than ever to delivering for millions of families.

30 states are already on board – 20 to go!

[Tommy Schultz 🇺🇸 @Tommy_USA]

HUGE news out of Treasury today on the school choice Education Freedom Tax Credit: couples can in fact donate $3,400 to K-12 scholarship organizations for the full, 100% tax credit in 2027.

The potential donation pool just increased $75.1 billion with that change!🧵

[U.S. Department of Education @usedgov]

Today, the Trump Administration is formally putting into regulation what the law has said all along: Title IX’s protections are based on SEX, not “gender identity.”

[Greg Dolan @GregFDolan]

@pegobry_en https://t.co/FJlAXCNn42

[Greg Dolan @GregFDolan]

@pegobry_en Isn't this the heat map in action though? She valued the theoretical "school community" over her own actual daughter - for years, in multiple instances where the bad situation was obvious to her.

I have little to no sympathy as a parent.

[Greg Dolan @GregFDolan]

Congratulations to @CFrancisFisher - excited for this next chapter of @ISI and the important work they do for young people and American renewal.

[Intercollegiate Studies Institute @ISI]

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute is proud to announce the appointment of Christopher Fisher as the next President of ISI.

Chris returns to ISI after 12 years, having previously served here in both programs and digital media roles.

He brings more than a decade of experience leading educational programs for students and teachers alike. Most recently he served as Superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Before his work in San Francisco, Chris concluded a decade of leadership at Portsmouth Abbey, a Benedictine monastery and independent Catholic boarding school in Rhode Island, where he served as Executive Director of the Portsmouth Institute for Faith and Culture and taught in the school's Humanities program, grounding students in the great texts of the Western tradition.

Chris's deep commitment to the enduring ideas of the Western tradition, his record of institutional leadership, and his passion for forming the next generation of thoughtful, engaged citizens make him exceptionally well-suited to lead ISI into its next chapter.

Please join us in welcoming @CFrancisFisher back to the ISI family. We look forward to his leadership as ISI continues its longstanding tradition of educating for liberty.

[Michelle Kelso Kafer @michellekafer]

September 22, 1776

"I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.”

-Nathan Hale, 21 years old
From schoolteacher to soldier and spy

[Greg Dolan @GregFDolan]

@pegobry_en Isn't this the heat map in action though? She valued the theoretical "school community" over her own actual daughter - for years, in multiple instances where the bad situation was obvious to her.

I have little to no sympathy as a parent.

[U.S. Department of Education @usedgov]

The Trump Administration is putting an END to these VIOLATIONS of parental rights and the abuse of America’s most vulnerable – our children.

[Greg Dolan @GregFDolan]

Took a first-date in high school to this movie. Seemed like the most normal thing ever to me that this was the best movie in theaters to see that weekend. I don't think she objected, but it was also not the start of a long relationship. No regrets - the movie was phenomenal and I have always held Todd Beamer and his companions in the highest regard.

[Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck]

Gut-wrenching. Powerful scene at the end of 'United 93' depicting the passengers fighting back against the al-Qaeda terrorists.

They were and still are the best among us ❤️ #NeverForget

[Secretary Linda McMahon @EDSecMcMahon]

A year ago, we lost one of America’s fiercest patriots.

Charlie didn’t just defend the American Dream. He was the American Dream.

He believed in freedom, hard work, resilience, and human potential. He spent his life inspiring the next generation to pursue that promise.

We miss you, Charlie. We will proudly continue the fight for our next generation in your honor.