Can You Tell the Education Scholar from the Conspiracy Kook? Aiming to expose the “Conservative Industrial Complex’s War on Education,” a new book instead reveals the problems with education scholarship Me, at @EducationNext. educationnext.org/can-you-te…

Happening now! Where are Democrats when it comes to education policy? @arneduncan @Jorge_Elorza @RaviMGupta @NicoMPollock 🫏 aei.org/events/what-are-demo… @AEIeducation @rickhess99

Excellent caveats for schools leading Continuous Improvement efforts - I've led a few myself - Diagnosing the problem, the most important step, is often done so poorly that the chosen initiative is doomed before it starts. All of us in education are so prone to bias...

Don't forget to register to attend, either in-person or line, tomorrow's event, "What Are Democrats for in Education Reform?" From 3-4 pm, @rickhess99 will discuss with leaders from @DFER_News on where Democrats stand on education today and where they need to go. aei.org/events/what-are-demo…

What could a blue wave in next month’s midterm elections mean for school choice programs? @rickhess99 and the director of John Hopkins University’s Institute for Education Policy discuss. #EWOpinion #RHSU edweek.org/policy-politics/o…

What would a blue wave mean for school choice? Read on as the indomitable @rickhess99 and I speculate. @JHUSOE @JHUeducation @AEIeducation

In a new edition of "Talking Choice," @rickhess99 talks with @BernerEd, Director of @JHUEdPolicy, about whether, and how, a "blue wave" in the midterm elections would impact education choice policies. edweek.org/policy-politics/o…

What Could a Blue Wave Mean for School Choice? These programs are likely to prove sturdier than you might expect. I discuss with @BernerEd, at @educationweek. edweek.org/policy-politics/o…

Rick Hess pulls no punches in this book review. So many delicious zingers.

"Mehta et al. deserve credit for penning a volume that digs deep into the how of school improvement and offers real insight as to lessons learned. They may not have the answers, but they offer a wealth of practical wisdom—wisdom that is in short supply when it comes to education reform." — @rickhess99 Read the full review of A Chance to Solve Their Own Problems by @jal_mehta, @Max_Yurkofsky, Kim Frumin, Amelia Peterson, and James Jack in @EducationNext educationnext.org/is-improvi…

Is Bottom-Up the Key to School Improvement? Well…   A new book examines what happens when schools embrace "continuous improvement and design." Me, at @EducationNext. educationnext.org/is-improvi…

Ten Weeks Until the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Goes Live. Aidan Grogan & I share some key takeaways from yesterday’s FSTC conversation with @RobertEnlow, @blew_jim, @jodi4aftschool, & John Schilling. At @AEIdeas. aei.org/domestic-policy/ten-…

Money quote: "Conspiracy-minded podcasters like Tucker Carlson and Hasan Piker already have mindless tribalism covered; we don’t need academics patrolling the same turf." Having been part of the "CIC" for a long time, I welcome the authors to come see how unglamorous it is here.

This is fantastic. Hard to pick just one @rickhess99 line to quote, but this is one of the best I’ve ever read: “They tend to sound less like analysts explaining domestic debates than anthropologists describing an odd tribe they’ve stumbled upon in the South Pacific.”😂

@rickhess99 is at it again! Let’s go to the judges… educationnext.org/can-you-te…

Smart take from Charlie, a guy who’s deeply versed in D politics & policy. Worth reading.

It’s “democratic participation” when progressives organize to improve education. It’s a nefarious conspiracy when conservatives do it. Classic.

"The four [authors] set out to solve the not-so-mysterious mystery of why, in the early 2020s, many states moved to combat CRT, dismantle DEI, adopt the “science of reading,” and ban cell phones in schools. The result is their long, winding, and frequently laughable complaint about a nefarious “Conservative Industrial Complex” (CIC) and its “highly coordinated campaigns” to destroy American education." — @rickhess99 in @EducationNext educationnext.org/can-you-te…

Excellent from @rickhess99

A masterfully lucid diagnosis of the conspiracy-prone, progressively cloistered professoriate who have lost an ability to understand almost anything happening in even right-of-center education policy and reform. Must read piece by Rick Hess.

Great piece: “One author took a field trip to a State Policy Network conference, yielding an extended anthropological account of the full hotel bars, free breakfasts, and “unspoken gender binaries” (i.e., women wore dresses and the men wore suits).”