Jordan Peterson sits down with bestselling author, commentator, and researcher, Dr. Corey DeAngelis. They shed light on where 50% of all state budgets are spent, the surprising stack of monopolies that strangleholds public education, the partisan lies surrounding school choice, and the truth every parent needs to know: school choice uplifts all students. Dr. Corey A. DeAngelis is a senior fellow at the American Culture Project and a visiting fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. He has been labeled the “school choice evangelist” and called “the most effective school choice advocate since Milton Friedman.” He is a regular on Fox News and frequently appears in The Wall Street Journal. DeAngelis is also the executive director at Educational Freedom Institute, a senior fellow at Reason Foundation, an adjunct scholar at Cato Institute, a board member at Liberty Justice Center, and a senior advisor at Accuracy in Media. He holds a Ph.D. in education policy from the University of Arkansas. He is the national bestselling author of “The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools.” This episode was filmed on February 28th, 2025. Unlock the ad-free experience of The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast and dive into exclusive bonus content on DailyWire+. Start watching now: http://dwpluspeterson.com/yt ALL LINKS: https://feedlink.io/jordanbpeterson | Links | For Corey DeAngelis: On X https://x.com/DeAngelisCorey?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Read his most recent book “The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools” https://amzn.to/4h3wAeK | Sponsors | PreBorn!: Help save babies from abortion. Visit https://preborn.com/JORDAN Shopify: Sign up for your one-dollar-per month trial period at http://shopify.com/jbp Oracle NetSuite: Download the CFO’s Guide to AI and Machine Learning at http://NetSuite.com/JBP Marek Health: Get a 10% discount on the Optimization Package (use code PETERSON): https://marekhealth.com/peterson | Chapters | (0:00) Coming up (1:01) Intro (4:38) Avoiding ideological capture in the Department of Education Reform (7:16) 50% of state budgets are spent on K-12 education — where the monopolies form (12:20) “Academia is failing because we need more money” (17:49) Why Democrats refuse to vote for school choice, how the pandemic revealed a broken system (21:29) Educational psychologists tend to promote and amplify the worst ideas — the science of teaching does not need to be reinvented (26:47) How Dr. Peterson mapped politically correct belief systems, why academia attracts low-conscientiousness radical leftists (34:58) Competition in education increases quality across the board (39:54) The academic elites already know the truth about competition (42:32) Publishing four studies a year for nearly a decade (45:59) Public influence and Trump’s endorsement (47:20) Fund students – not systems, a major weakness of the Conservative Party (51:18) Was the Head Start program a success or a failure? Lottery outcomes in education access (55:13) The reasonable idea behind Head Start and where it went wrong (57:59) Flipping the politics around school choice, the Virginia election (1:03:26) Teacher certification needs a multi-pronged solution (1:09:50) Where the money goes… (1:14:38) DeAngelis' use of X to shift the political landscape (1:18:33) What about the children with uninvolved parents? (1:22:29) School choice uplifts everyone — not just the rich // LINKS // Peterson Academy https://petersonacademy.com ARC https://www.arcforum.com Books - https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/books/ #JordanPeterson #JordanBPeterson #DrJordanPeterson #DrJordanBPeterson #dailywireplus Ep. 0529