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

Liberals now think it’s ‘predatory’ to expect borrowers to repay taxpayers
Frederick M. Hess, National Review
The Left’s assault on student lending reflects an inclination to treat borrowers as passive victims.

Students have a ‘right to know’ just what that degree is worth
Kevin J. James, Andrew P. Kelly, US News & World Report
A bipartisan coalition in the House of Representatives introduced a bill that would repeal the ban on a federal student unit record system, thus providing students and parents with vital information on earnings and loan repayment rates from institutions and individual programs.

Too little, too late
Katharine B. Stevens, US News & World Report
Minnesota’s fascinating preschool battle drags on, highlighting crucial questions for the expansion of early education across the country.

Red tape comes to charter schooling
Frederick M. Hess, Michael McShane, National Review
Charter schooling would be better served if authorizers played a more limited and disciplined role.

Times op-ed goes all in on student debt silliness
Andrew P. Kelly, Forbes
On Saturday, cultural critic Lee Siegel argued in the New York Times that student loans are in fact immoral, and that defaulting is the path to liberation. This is, quite possibly, the worst advice you could give, especially to low-income students.

The tenure lawsuit still matters
Katharine B. Stevens, New York Daily News
The New York state teachers union is once again attempting to toss out the teacher tenure lawsuit launched last July, which argues that New York’s laws protecting educators from termination violate children’s constitutional right to a “sound basic education.”

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