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Plain talk and school reform

Plain talk and school reform

Yesterday, the American Educator published a new essay where I look back over some of what I’ve learned in the course of three decades in…
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Frederick M. Hess

The elusive Goldilocks model of school accountability

I wrote the other day about the problem with making too much out of the paper promises in state ESSA plans. After all, what really matters…
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Frederick M. Hess
The 2018 AEI Summer Honors Program

The 2018 AEI Summer Honors Program

Thousands of college students travel to Washington, DC, every summer to learn about the world of politics and public policy through…
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AEI
How cheap talk fuels bad school accountability

How cheap talk fuels bad school accountability

Usually, we claim to have little use for people who are all talk. We mock second-guessers and those Monday-morning quarterbacks who tell…
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Frederick M. Hess
Straight Up Conversation: US organizer Eric Kalenze explains researchED

Straight Up Conversation: US organizer Eric Kalenze explains researchED

Eric Kalenze is a Minnesota-based author and education advocate who’s involved in organizing researchED, the professional-development…
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Frederick M. Hess
Never underestimate the power of the private sector to rise up to any challenge

Never underestimate the power of the private sector to rise up to any challenge

Because of a hurricane of claims of price gouging in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, the private sector in Texas and Louisiana is getting…
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Mark J. Perry
Inspired by Hurricane Harvey, I propose the Maximum Temperature Act to stop unconscionable…

Inspired by Hurricane Harvey, I propose the Maximum Temperature Act to stop unconscionable…

Inspired by events following Hurricane Harvey, how about a “Maximum Temperature Act”? Specifically, couldn’t the government intervene in…
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Mark J. Perry
The complications of state-level education policymaking

The complications of state-level education policymaking

With the US Department of Education now approving state ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) plans, attention turns to those plans’ contents…
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Andy Smarick

Race and education reform | VIEWPOINT

How can education reformers constructively address the inequities surrounding race in education without alienating people? USC’s Shaun…
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Frederick M. Hess
Channeling Bastiat: If you don’t object to free light from the Sun, you shouldn’t object to…

Channeling Bastiat: If you don’t object to free light from the Sun, you shouldn’t object to…

In the mid-1800s, the French government imposed tariffs on numerous imported foreign goods, on everything from sewing needles to…
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Mark J. Perry
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