Jonathan Butcher of the Heritage Foundation

Jonathan serves as the Will Skillman Fellow in Education at The Heritage Foundation. His area of expertise lies in Education Policy, which he studied at the University of Arkansas.

Butcher is an author as well as commentator, writing and researching education policy around the United States. Most recently, he published “Splintered: Critical Race Theory and the Progressive War on Truth” and wrote several chapters in The Heritage Foundation’s “The Critical Classroom.”

Generally focusing on K-12 schools, he has hopes of creating solutions for many problems presented in schools of all ages. Butcher’s conservative background has influenced his approach to addressing these issues. He believes that many of these concerns have arose as a result of the government’s expanding role in education. He also has zeroed in on topics such as free-speech and racial prejudice which results from critical race theory and its implementation in lower-level education.

He is a Senior Fellow with The Beacon Center of Tennessee, a research organization. He also served as the Education Director at the Goldwater Institute prior to his position as the Will Skillman Fellow.