The Conservative Counterrevolution in Education

Zach Beitchen: I think the philosophical underpinnings of your two positions have not been fully explored in this conversation. You see these little individual battles in specific school districts as part of a fundamental strategy for reshaping the ideological character of the U.S., he says. Education is predominantly a state and local issue, so a conservative counterrevolution is going to mobilize along those lines at school boards and then at state legislatures,. Chris Christie: It's a great question. And I won't duck. But what we have to understand here is that our system operates at multiple levels, primarily the local level, the state level, and the federal level.