Frederick M. Hess
The Hill
Washington, DC, United States
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Past articles by Frederick:
How conservatives can lead on K-12
Conservatives must reassure voters they’re more focused on practical solutions than MAGA performance art. → Read More
New research raises caution flag on universal pre-K
A new study, billed as “the nation’s only thorough, ongoing investigation into the impacts of a statewide pre-K program for economically disadvantaged children using a random sample,” is a reminder that pre-K programs don’t always deliver and that we should proceed with caution. → Read More
Media narrative got education's role in Virginia election backwards
Youngkin’s approach has a lot more in common with how Clinton, Bush, and Obama used education to appeal to the middle. → Read More
Oregon Democrats resurrect the ‘soft bigotry of low expectations’
A new law allows students to graduate from high school without the ability to read, write, or do math. → Read More
How a Turbocharged Child Tax Credit Could Electrify School Choice
States could offer to match the money if parents spend it on education → Read More
Social Media’s Like Tossing a ’Tween the Keys to a Harley
"Schools would benefit from thinking about social media not as a few apps embedded in a ’tween’s phone but as sophisticated, double-edged tools." → Read More
How to Improve Teaching After the Pandemic
It’s wholly possible for schools to figure out how to leverage staff more effectively; it’s just not the way teachers’ work has traditionally been organized. → Read More
Taking Stock After 30 Years of Charter Schools
This year was the first time in many years that, for whatever reason, the White House did not issue a proclamation for National Charter Schools Week. → Read More
On Critical Race Theory in the Classroom, Idaho Makes More Sense Than Oklahoma
Legislators do well when they consciously echo the provisions of the Civil Rights Act that have been brushed aside in the excesses of anti-racist education. → Read More
California wants teachers to violate education's Hippocratic Oath
They are putting an end to advanced math in grades K-10. → Read More
Getting Ed-Tech Wrong Would Be a Bitter Pandemic Legacy
Bad ed-tech habits that formed during the shutdown risk compromising instruction and even slowing the return to school next fall. → Read More
There’s Insurance for Homes or Cars—Why Not College Degrees?
Entrepeneur offers colleges a way to guarantee their graduates' future income → Read More
How schools can spend $130 billion responsibly
Education leaders must resist the temptation to simply do more of what they have always done. → Read More
Civics education — like barbecue — should not be one-recipe-fits-all
Students need to be able to wrestle with big questions and formulate their own answers. → Read More
When Does Educational Equity Become Educationally Unethical?
"The push for equity stumbles into a truly gruesome place when educators are being trained or directed to shortchange some students based on how they look or where they live." → Read More
City Year CEO on Supporting Students Through the Pandemic
Monitoring chats, and making sure students are showing up and signing on. → Read More
What’s It Take for Philanthropy to Help Rural Schools?
Building trust, measuring impact informally may work in other places, too. → Read More
Remembering Harvard’s Richard Elmore
Richard Elmore Last week, the field of education policy lost an icon. Richard Elmore, a longtime professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, played an outsized role in helping the profession better understand the realities of policy when it came to improving schools. He was also an influential mentor of mine, serving on my dissertation committee and helping me get launched in this… → Read More
Outschool CEO on How to Engage Half a Million Virtual Learners
Group guitar lessons, math-and-Minecraft see rapid growth online. → Read More
Five Intuitions to Guide Assessment in 2021 and After
Parental choice is a form of accountability, too. → Read More