Georgia's 2012 Charter Schools Amendment was the first successful statewide school choice referendum in the United States. This amendment permitted the state to authorize new charter schools, thereby creating a way for charter creators to bypass local school boards. This study analyzes voting on this state constitutional amendment and finds that support was higher among counties with lower achieving public schools, more school-aged children, more adults having college degrees, more private school enrollment, more homeowners, and lower public school employment. There was also a positive correlation between Democratic voters and support for the amendment-this result differs from previous research and the heavily Republican legislative vote authorizing the public referendum.

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Active learning approaches generally train students in higher-level skills like synthesis and evaluation through writing, discussion, or problem solving. At the same time, long-term learning gains are achieved when economic content relates to students' experiences. We propose a project that harnesses students' unique and diverse interests in television and cinema for a skit-writing and acting activity called Economics in Three Acts. We conducted a pilot version of this project in an introductory economics course and collected student feedback to assess its validity as a teaching tool. This pedagogy fits well into liberal arts institutions desiring to facilitate learning across disciplines.