AEI Education: Experts, highlights, and headlines

Education scholars

Frederick Hess Director, Education Policy Studies Research areas: K-12 and higher education, School reform

 

Michael Q. McShane Research Fellow Research areas: K-12 education, Private and religious schools

 

Kevin James Research Fellow Research areas: Quality of higher ed, Higher ed financing (student loans)

Andrew Kelly Director, Center on Higher Education Reform Research areas: Higher education,  Education funding, Student loans

 

Katharine B. Stevens Research Fellow Research areas: Pre-K education, Teacher tenure

Headlines and Highlights

What cage-busters believe
Frederick M. Hess, Rick Hess Straight Up
Cage-busters believe that a focus on problem-solving, precision, and responsibility can enable teachers to create the schools and systems where they can do their best work.

Let’s dig a little deeper before calling for an average performing school to be shut down
Michael McShane, AEIdeas
Should shutting down average schools really be anywhere near the top of the to-do list for people trying to improve education?

End the education wars
Frederick M. Hess, U.S. News & World Report 
It’s vital to recognize that both sides in the education wars are right, but are looking at things from different vantage points.

The myth of universal pre-K
Katharine B. Stevens, U.S. News & World Report  
Big scale-ups of “pre-K for all” are much more useful to politicians and the middle class than to the disadvantaged children most in need of help.

Obama’s college rating system: Where is it?
Kevin J. James, Real Clear Policy
Rating colleges may seem like a straightforward task. But there are many reasons why the federal government is not equipped to do it well, and it will likely create as many problems as it solves.

The ‘University of Everywhere’ isn’t for everyone: The future of learning will be a big tent
Andrew P. Kelly, Forbes 
Traditional higher education is running headlong into a deepening crisis, one where consumers increasingly feel trapped and desperate for an alternative. The future of learning must include more than open online courses.

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