Frederick M. Hess
Education Policy Studies Director, American Enterprise Institute and Contributor at Education Next
Senior Contributor at Forbes
Opinion Contributo at Education Week
Educator. Author. Director @AEIeducation. Blogger @educationweek. Executive editor @educationnext. Senior contributor @Forbes. Contributing editor @NRO.
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2 days ago |
educationnext.org | Frederick M. Hess
Last year, I worried that a glitchy chatbot had seized control of the American Education Research Association (AERA). Billing itself as the world’s largest organization of education researchers, AERA had issued a presidential call for conference papers that was so full of inhuman gibberish that I couldn’t imagine actual humans were still behind the keyboard. In some ways, it wasn’t surprising. I mean, this is an organization that has too often traded its scholarly mantle for a political one.
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6 days ago |
city-journal.org | Frederick M. Hess |Greg Fournier
The Trump White House has taken the paddle to some of the nation’s most famous universities over anti-Semitism, politicization, and other dubious behavior. But the resulting fireworks have obscured a more prosaic cause of campus dysfunction: college students are bored and aimless because they have too much time on their hands. As we explain in a new Manhattan Institute issue brief, today’s students spend far less time on academics than previous generations.
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1 week ago |
aei.org | Nat Malkus |Frederick M. Hess |Andrew J. Rotherham
It’s day 107 of the second Trump administration, and a lot has happened over the last two weeks. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases that sit at the intersection of schooling and religious liberty. Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a massive ESA bill into law. President Trump signed a raft of executive orders on education. And the Trump administration continued its fight with Harvard.
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1 week ago |
aei.org | Frederick M. Hess
President Donald Trump’s early months in office have featured an unprecedented burst of executive activity. Amid all the directives, cuts, and pyrotechnics, it’s been tough to make sense of what it all means. Well, I recently offered my two cents. But I was curious to get a second opinion from a veteran insider.
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1 week ago |
aei.org | Frederick M. Hess
Op-Ed Trump’s Barrage of Executive Orders for Education: How Significant Are They? Op-Ed Trump’s 100 Days: The Good, the Bad, and the Confounding Op-Ed Math Can Make Smart People Feel Dumb Op-Ed Federal Education Research Has Been ‘Shredded.’ What’s Driving This?
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