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  • 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

  • School Rethink 2.0

    Putting Reinvention into Practice

    Edited by Frederick M. Hess, Michael B. Horn, Juliet Squire ...
    Ten brilliant approaches that are disrupting US education and actionable advice for their broader implementation ... Read more

    $27.99 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

  • 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

  • Letters to a Young Education Reformer

    by Frederick M. Hess ...
    Series series Educational Innovations Series
    In Letters to a Young Education Reformer, Frederick M. Hess distills knowledge from twenty-five years of working in and around school reform. Inspired by his conversations with young, would-be reformers who are passionate about transforming education, the book offers a window into Hess’s thinking about what education reform is and should be.Hess writes that “reform is more a matter of how one ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship

    Possibilities for School Reform

    Edited by Frederick M. Hess ...
    The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship examines the challenge of creating innovative and productive entrepreneurial activity in American education.In the course of exploring these challenges, the book considers a number of crucial issues and circumstances: existing “barriers to entry” that prohibit or obstruct entrepreneurial efforts; the availability—and frequent lack—of venture capital for ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Breakthrough Leadership in the Digital Age

    Using Learning Science to Reboot Schooling

    by Frederick M. Hess, Bror V. H. Saxberg ...
    "By deconstructing learning science and making the connection to technology, Hess and Saxberg have outlined key strategies for school leaders as they work to transform traditional practices in schools. Whether it is whole-school reform or targeted interventions, principals will be motivated to rethink or‘re-engineer’ the use of technology to optimize teaching and learning."—Gail Connelly, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Futures of School Reform

    Edited by Jal Mehta, Frederick M. Hess, Robert B. Schwartz ...
    The Futures of School Reform represents the culminating work of a three-year discussion among national education leaders convened by the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Based on the recognition that current education reform efforts have reached their limits, the volume maps out a variety of bold visions that push the boundaries of our current thinking. Taken together, these visions identify ... 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

  • Common Core Meets Education Reform

    What It All Means for Politics, Policy, and the Future of Schooling

    by Frederick M. Hess, Michael Q. McShane ...
    How can the Common Core complement and not conflict with school improvement efforts already at work across the United States? How can it be seamlessly integrated into accountability systems, teacher preparation and development, charter schools, and educational technology? This timely volume brings together prominent scholars and policy analysts to examine the pressing issues that will mark Common ... Read more

    $31.99 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

  • 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