InfluenceWatch Podcast #280: A Great School Rethink
Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, thinks schooling and school reform itself are due for a rethink. In his brief (less than 150 pages,…
Rick Hess
A Conversation with the American Enterprise Institute’s Rick Hess (Part 1 of 2)
The reality is that most big-district superintendents are off to the next job within three or four years, before the results are really clear. So, you get this weird, distorted…
A Conversation with the American Enterprise Institute’s Rick Hess (Part 2 of 2)
Schools are these human, complicated enterprises with deep community roots. Especially given the construction of our federal system, these all-caps reforms, no matter how well-intended, tend to play out in…