Robert Pondiscio

Robert Pondiscio is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on K–12 education, curriculum, teaching, school choice, and charter schooling. Before joining AEI, Mr. Pondiscio worked at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the Core Knowledge Foundation. He was also an adviser and civics teacher at Democracy Prep Public Schools. He began his education career teaching fifth grade at a struggling South Bronx public school in 2002. Before that, he worked in journalism for 20 years, including in senior positions at TIME and BusinessWeek.

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He has been extensively published in the popular press, including in the Atlantic, Education Next, the New York Daily News, and the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Pondiscio is the author of How the Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle over School Choice (Avery, 2019).

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