Copyright 2012 Frederick M. Hess Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:40:03 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Frederick M. Hess :: Writings http://www.frederickhess.org RHess@AEI.org (Frederick M. Hess) webmaster@pundicity.com en-us http://www.frederickhess.org/2012/02/carrots-sticks-the-bully-pulpit Fri, 3 Feb 2012 09:23:00 EST Interesting day at AEI on Wednesday. Hosted a lively discussion on "Education 2012: What the Election Year Will Mean for Education Policy," looking at what the year ahead holds for education in Washington and nationally. I was joined by a wickedly smart... http://www.frederickhess.org/2012/02/straight-up-conversation-departing-kasich-edu Wed, 1 Feb 2012 07:52:00 EST For the past year, Bob Sommers served as newly elected Ohio Governor John Kasich's education advisor and helped to spearhead the Governor's reform efforts. This put Sommers in the thick of things during a year when Ohio enacted an ambitious agenda,... http://www.frederickhess.org/2012/01/five-more-years-of-what-exactly Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:52:00 EST Hidy all, I'm back. Lots of excitement while I was away, including the bizarre GOP primary season and the President's SOTU speech.For what it's worth, I thought the SOTU's seven-minute education section was embarrassing. The President could've said that... http://www.frederickhess.org/2012/01/introducing-your-special-guest-stars Mon, 9 Jan 2012 07:53:00 EST Hi all. So I'm about to take a break from the blog, to duck some of the post-Edu-Scholar rankings excitement and to focus on my upcoming book on cage-busting leadership. Fortunately, I think we've once again lucked into a stellar line-up of fresh guest... http://www.frederickhess.org/2012/01/top-25-rhsu-edu-scholars-2012-v-2011 Fri, 6 Jan 2012 08:07:00 EST If we compare this year's Edu-Scholar top 25 to 2011's, there are a lot of familiar faces--and some interesting movement. New to the top ten this year, from 2011, are Terry Moe, Richard Arum, and David Cohen. Moe rocketed up the chart, from 34th to... http://www.frederickhess.org/2012/01/the-2012-rhsu-edu-scholar-public-presence-rankings Wed, 4 Jan 2012 07:47:00 EST Today, RHSU unveils the 2012 Edu-Scholar Public Presence rankings. The metrics, as explained yesterday, are designed to recognize those university-based academics who are contributing most substantially to public debates about schools and schooling. The... http://www.frederickhess.org/2012/01/rhsu-exclusive-the-five-tool-policy-scholar-1 Tue, 3 Jan 2012 08:30:00 EST Tomorrow in this space, I'll be publishing the 2012 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Presence Rankings. Today, just like last year, I want to take a few moments to explain what those ratings are about and how they were generated. The exercise starts from two... http://www.frederickhess.org/2011/12/coming-next-week-2012-rhsu-edu-scholar-rankings Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:19:00 EST Just to give readers a head's up, next week we'll be running the 2012 RHSU Edu-Scholar Rankings. The exercise is intended to counter what I think is the academy's unfortunate tendency to discount scholarly contributions that impact public understanding... http://www.frederickhess.org/2011/12/the-difference-between-insult-and-argument Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:12:00 EST It's the end of the year, and I always get a bit reflective. As a blogger, I've long been intrigued by the "comments." I'm frequently startled by the inchoate fury of so many postings. At an intellectual level I understand this is how many engage... http://www.frederickhess.org/2011/12/ten-edu-stories-well-be-reading-in-2012 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:49:00 EST Here's my best guess at some of the key edu-headlines we'll be reading in 2012.10] "GOP presidential nominee abandons primary season attacks on Department of Education; talks up education reform in push for moderates." 9] "Aggressive efforts to tackle... http://www.frederickhess.org/2011/12/steering-clear-of-the-new-stupid Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:15:00 EST Note: This week, I'm giving RHSU readers a look at my essay from Educational Leadership entitled "The New Stupid." For days one and two, see here and here. If you see warning signs of the new stupid, what should you do? There are at least four keys to... http://www.frederickhess.org/2011/12/more-on-the-new-stupid Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:07:00 EST Note: This week, I'm giving RHSU readers a look at my essay from Educational Leadership entitled "The New Stupid." For day one, see here. The second element of the new stupid is Translating Research Simplistically. For two decades, advocates of... http://www.frederickhess.org/2011/12/the-new-stupid Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:59:00 EST A little while back, I published a piece titled "The New Stupid" in Educational Leadership. It's a piece that's perhaps more relevant today than when I wrote it, and one that folks continue to ask about. Anyway, given that things have slowed down for the... http://www.frederickhess.org/2011/12/accountability-plateau-double-standards-and Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:17:00 EST Hey, it's a hectic Friday, so just three quick things that I want to touch upon today.First, Fordham yesterday released Mark Schneider's new paper "The Accountability Plateau." Mark, former NCES Commissioner (and a visiting scholar at AEI), makes a... http://www.frederickhess.org/2011/12/the-phantom-menace Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:28:00 EST When it comes to the question of for-profits and American education, there's often more hysteria than analysis. Just this weekend, the New York Times published an extensive, shall we say, selectively sourced attack of for-profit venture K12 Inc. piling...