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  • Blueprint for School System Transformation

    A Vision for Comprehensive Reform in Milwaukee and Beyond

    by Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj, Frederick Hess ...
    Series series New Frontiers in Education
    Despite widespread recognition that school systems need to do profoundly better, those seeking improvement have been persistently frustrated by the mediocre results of popular reforms. School and system leaders, policy-makers, and funders lack clear guidance as to the steps necessary to dramatically and effectively transform an educational ecosystem. Would-be reformers need a playbook outlining ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • School Choice In The Real World

    Lessons From Arizona Charter Schools

    by Robert Maranto, Scott Milliman, Frederick Hess, April Gresham ...
    This book presents the first published accounts and evaluations of the first free market in education in the U.S., Arizona charter schools.. The charter school is fast becoming one of the most significant attempts at public education reform in this country. Over 1100 charter schools operate in twenty-seven states, with several hundred more to be added in the next two years. School Choice in the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Spinning Wheels

    The Politics of Urban School Reform

    by Frederick M. Hess ...
    Almost everyone agrees that America's urban schools are a mess. But while this agreement has fostered widespread support for aggressive reform, Frederick Hess argues that much of what ails urban education is actually the result of continuous or fragmentary reform. Hess explains that political incentives drive school superintendents to promote reforms--to demonstrate that they are ""making a ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Teaching America

    The Case for Civic Education

    by David J. Feith, Seth Andrew, Charles F. Bahmueller, Bruce Cole, Mike Feinberg, Senator Bob Graham, Chris Hand, Frederick M. Hess, Michael Kazin, Senator Jon Kyl, Jay P. Lefkowitz, Peter Levine, Harry Lewis, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Secretary Rod Paige, Charles N. Quigley, Admiral Mike Ratliff, Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Jason Ross, Andrew J. Rotherham, Mark Bauerlein, John M. Bridgeland, Alan M. Dershowitz, Eugene W. Hickok, Jr., John R. Thelin, Juan Williams ...
    Series series New Frontiers in Education
    In Teaching America, more than 20 leading thinkers sound the alarm over a crisis in citizenship—and lay out a powerful agenda for reform. The book’s unprecedented roster of authors includes Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Senator Jon Kyl, Senator Bob Graham, Secretary Rod Paige, Alan Dershowitz, Juan Williams, Glenn Reynolds, Michael Kazin, Frederick Hess, Andrew Rotherham, Mike Feinberg, Seth Andrew ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Common Sense School Reform

    by Frederick M. Hess ...
    Forget everything you think you know about school reform. Cutting through the cant, sentiment, and obfuscation characterizing the current school reform debate, Frederick M. Hess lacerates the conventional "status quo" reform efforts and exposes the naivete underlying reform strategies that rest on solutions like class size reduction, small schools, and enhanced professional development. He ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great School Rethink

    by Frederick M. Hess ...
    An invigorating examination of the potential for meaningful change in education, from one of the nation's most astute observers of schooling and school improvement.In The Great School Rethink, education policy sentinel Frederick M. Hess offers a pithy and perceptive appraisal of American schooling and finds, in the uncertain period following pandemic disruption, an ideal moment to reimagine US ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Getting Education Right

    A Conservative Vision for Improving Early Childhood, K12, and College

    by Frederick M. Hess, Michael Q. McShane ...
    In Getting Education Right, Rick Hess and Mike McShane argue that America has too long suffered from the absence of a robust, coherent, and principled conservative vision for educational improvement. The book both diagnoses a problem and offers a solution. The problem? The right has too narrowly focused on school choice, campus speech, and shrinking Washington’s footprint, while the left has ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Private Enterprise and Public Education

    by Frederick M. Hess, Michael B. Horn ...
    The growth of for-profit providers in the K–16 education sector has generated more than its share of controversy. From the emergence of charter schools to post-secondary options like the University of Phoenix, for-profit providers have been lauded for their capacity to serve historically underserved populations but derided for their pursuit of profit—which, critics argue, is at the expense of the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • A Search for Common Ground

    Conversations About the Toughest Questions in K12 Education

    by Frederick M. Hess, Pedro A. Noguera ...
    At a time of bitter national polarization, there is a critical need for leaders who can help us better communicate with one another. In A Search for Common Ground, Rick Hess and Pedro Noguera, who have often fallen on opposing sides of the ideological aisle over the past couple of decades, candidly talk through their differences on some of the toughest issues in K–12 education today—from school ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Cage-Busting Teacher

    by Frederick M. Hess ...
    Series series Educational Innovations Series
    The Cage-Busting Teacher adopts the logic of Cage-Busting Leadership and applies it to the unique challenges and opportunities of classroom teachers. Detailed, accessible, and thoroughly engaging, it uncovers the many ways in which teachers can break out of familiar constraints in order to influence school and classroom practice, education policy, and school reform. “Cage-busting is concrete, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Urban School Reform

    Lessons from San Diego

    by Frederick M. Hess ...
    An indispensable book for administrators, policymakers, scholars, and practitioners, Urban School Reform presents a revealing portrait of reform efforts while identifying the full range of issues that education reformers will need to address in districts across the country in the years ahead.Today's urban school reformers face a bewildering array of challenges. Urgent problems pertaining to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Great School Rethink

    by Frederick M. Hess ...
    Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 11 min

    In The Great School Rethink, education policy sentinel Frederick M. Hess offers a pithy and perceptive appraisal of American schooling and finds, in the uncertain period following pandemic disruption, an ideal moment to reimagine US education. Now is the time, he asserts, to ask hard questions about how schools use time and talent, how they work with parents, what they do with digital tools, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook