Copyright 2019 Frederick M. Hess Wed, 02 Oct 2019 12:40:01 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Frederick M. Hess :: Writings http://www.frederickhess.org RHess@AEI.org (Frederick M. Hess) webmaster@pundicity.com en-us http://www.frederickhess.org/2016/09/no-college-left-behind Thu, 29 Sep 2016 09:00:00 EST As I've said before, higher education reform increasingly feels like a rerun of the past two decades of K-12 reform—only on a 15 year time delay. In the past few years, President Obama and now Hillary Clinton have issued proposals that would give... http://www.frederickhess.org/2016/09/5-thoughts-on-the-trump-clinton-debate-education Tue, 27 Sep 2016 09:00:00 EST I just spent an evening watching the first Trump-Clinton debate. I feel like I need a long shower. I don't know about you, but I found that to be one of the least enlightening and most tedious Monday nights I can remember. Anyway, a few quick thoughts... http://www.frederickhess.org/2016/09/education-takes-11th-in-16 Thu, 22 Sep 2016 09:00:00 EST Today, my colleague Kelsey Hamilton and I released a look at how much attention the public is paying to education this year. We used the monthly Gallup surveys and the (occasional) CBS News surveys for 2016. You can read the brief here, but I figured I'd... http://www.frederickhess.org/2016/09/as-an-education-prez-trump-would-be-obama Tue, 20 Sep 2016 09:00:00 EST On the Ed Week homepage, Max Eden and I lament the lack of a conservative in the presidential contest. We argue that a conservative candidate is sorely needed after 16 years of Bush-Obama tutelage in the perils of federal education expansionism.What's... http://www.frederickhess.org/2016/09/my-mixed-feelings-on-xq-super-schools Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:00:00 EST Yesterday, the organizers of "XQ: The Super School Project" announced the ten winners of its competition to reimagine the American high school. Each winner took home $10 million to help turn its design into reality.I think the idea is appealing. I wholly... http://www.frederickhess.org/2016/09/talking-hbo-and-school-reform Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:00:00 EST While I was on blog break in August finishing Letters to a Young Education Reformer, HBO host John Oliver did a segment making fun of charter schools. The result? A large swath of the education policy world lost it. It was like Bill Clinton and the Loch... http://www.frederickhess.org/2016/09/five-thoughts-on-trump-education-speech Fri, 9 Sep 2016 09:00:00 EST Yesterday, at the Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy, Donald Trump delivered a speech about his education vision. As I've repeatedly noted, there's no point in putting a lot of stock in his speeches and utterances. Trump says stuff. It's mostly... http://www.frederickhess.org/2016/09/trump-big-education-week Tue, 6 Sep 2016 09:00:00 EST Last week was billed as the Trump campaign's big "education week." If you didn't notice, that's okay. I don't think Trump did either. As a Vox headline aptly put it: "Donald Trump started to describe his education policy. Then he never finished his... http://www.frederickhess.org/2016/07/a-half-dozen-thoughts-prompted-by-my-summer Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:00:00 EST I spent the past week teaching cage-busting leadership at Rice's Jones School of Business and then policy at UPenn's Graduate School of Education. I think I clocked something like 30 or 35 instructional hours over seven or eight days. It wore me out.... http://www.frederickhess.org/2016/07/rhsu-flashback-the-common-core-view-from-2022 Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:00:00 EST Education Next just released a sharp piece by Ashley Jochim and Pat McGuinn that documents the steady rate at which states are slinking away from the Common Core assessments and muses on the politics of the whole thing. Along with the venture's steadily... http://www.frederickhess.org/2016/07/nba-kevin-durant-and-the-status-of-teachers Wed, 6 Jul 2016 09:00:00 EST As you may have heard, even if you aren't a basketball junkie, all-star forward Kevin Durant announced Monday that he's leaving the Oklahoma City Thunder to join the Golden State Warriors. Durant's decision to join league MVP Stephen Curry in Golden... http://www.frederickhess.org/2016/06/4-lessons-that-brexit-can-offer-school-reform Wed, 29 Jun 2016 09:00:00 EST Last week, in a fiercely contested, closely watched referendum, Britain elected to leave the European Union by a 52 to 48 vote. The vote rattled financial markets, shocked experts, and surprised pollsters who had expected a narrow victory for Prime... http://www.frederickhess.org/2016/06/of-big-r-and-little-r-school-reform Wed, 22 Jun 2016 09:00:00 EST If you've spent more than five minutes around schooling, you probably have a strong reaction to the term "school reformer." The very phrase tends to spark cheers or catcalls. I'm sure you've seen effusive profiles of wondrous charter school leaders,... http://www.frederickhess.org/2016/06/http-blogsedweekorg-edweek-rick-hess-straight-up Wed, 15 Jun 2016 09:00:00 EST The other week, I noted that "today's 'school reform' community bears an eerie resemblance to the education schools that I fled long ago, including a stifling orthodoxy so ingrained that it's invisible to its adherents." Several friends, readers, and... http://www.frederickhess.org/2016/06/gates-common-core-mea-culpa-and-the-school-reform Wed, 8 Jun 2016 09:00:00 EST Over the past few weeks, the world of "school reform" has been consumed by a heated back-and-forth over whether the left-leaning majority is trying to shove right-leaning types out of the tent. The debate has swirled mostly around questions of race, but...