In what ways has education in America dramatically transformed over the past century? How exactly is the Trump administration’s approach to education different from that of the Obama administration? What has been behind the push for common core, and how has it affected the US education system?

Independent Institutute Senior Fellow Williamson Evers, who served as head of the Trump transition team for the Department of Education sits down with Jan Jekielek of The Epoch Times to discuss what Evers considers to be the greatest problems facing the education system in America today, including glaring omissions in today’s history textbooks, as well as the contemporary debate surrounding school choice.

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