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

The tenure lawsuit still matters
Katharine B. Stevens, New York Daily News
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.

Charter school authorizing: So what is your limiting principle?
Michael McShane, AEIdeas
There are things that are appropriate for charter school authorizers (and the legislators that write charter school policy) to ask schools to demonstrate before they are allowed to accept students and public dollars. And there are things that are inappropriate for them to request. Many authorizers (and legislators) have gone far beyond what is reasonable and appropriate.

Exploring institutional risk-sharing
Andrew P. Kelly,  Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
I’m here today to discuss how the federal government can give the colleges and universities it helps to finance a greater stake in student success and college affordability. Specifically, the question before us today is how a risk-sharing policy, where colleges would bear some financial responsibility for a portion of the federal loans that their students do not repay, might better align the incentives of colleges, students, and taxpayers.

Wanted: Better charter school applications
Michael McShane, U.S. News & World Report
By focusing applications on the “charter bargain” – that is, the implicit deal that charter schools make when they trade accountability for autonomy – authorizers can focus their efforts on ensuring that schools provide a quality educational environment and leave the rest up to the people actually educating kids.

The next front in the preschool fight
Katharine B. Stevens, U.S. News & World Report
Minnesota’s unusual debate highlights three crucial questions that the growing early care and education sector is increasingly going to face as more initiatives get off the ground across the country.

Opt-out parents have a point
Frederick M. Hess, U.S. News & World Report
A new phrase has rapidly become familiar in schooling: “opt-out.” Across the nation, hundreds of thousands of students are refusing to take state reading and math tests, usually at the behest of their parents.

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