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Are we entering a dark authoritarian era?
Or are we on the brink of a technological golden age or the apocalypse?
No one really knows, but I'm trying to find out.
From New York Times Opinion, I'm Ross Douthat.
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This is The Daily.
Across the country, public schools are facing massive declines in enrollment,
while the movement to use public funds for private education grows.
Today,
my colleague Dana Goldstein explains why so many parents are using taxpayer money to privately educate their children and how their choices will transform the future of American education.
It's Wednesday, August 20th.
Dana, you're a longtime education reporter here at The Times.
You have become a reference point, I think,
for a lot of people on what is happening with schooling in the United States.
And you've been covering what's been described as a sea change in the way America approaches K-12 education.
So tell me about that change.