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Frederick M. Hess

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Educator. Author. Director @AEIeducation. Executive editor @educationnext. Blogger @educationweek. Contributing editor @NRO. Mean-spirited SOB.
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Rick Hess Straight Up

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By Rick Hess, Frederick M. Hess
| Education Week Verified
When Teach For America launched 36 years ago, one of its pilot sites was Scotlandville High School in Baton Rouge, La., where I happened to teach. So, I’ve observed TFA from its earliest days and been a sometime-friend and sometime-critic over the decades since. A year ago, I chatted with TFA’s longtime CEO Elisa Villanueva Beard as she was stepping down. Now, it seemed like a good time to speak with her successor, Aneesh Sohoni, about his first year on the job.
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What Public Policy Schools Should Teach

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By Frederick M. Hess
| Political Economy with Jim Pethokoukis
Governing is hard, serious work. Even when we dislike the agenda of the party in power, we should prefer savvy professionalism to bumbling amateurism. When officials seek to shift international priorities, address the cost of living, revamp health care, or overhaul federal research, there are grave consequences to leaving these efforts to inept social media influencers and riled-up novices. In the Trump administration, governing professionals have been in short supply. We see the consequences daily.
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What It Means That Offices of Civil Rights, Special Education Are Leaving ED

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By Frederick M. Hess
| Education Next Verified
Last week, the Trump administration issued controversial new interagency agreements moving the office for civil rights and the office overseeing special education out of the Department of Education. There’ve been a lot of questions about what this all means in practice. Well, few are better positioned to answer them than Lindsay Fryer, president of Lodestone DC, who’s worked on both the House and Senate education committees and was the Senate’s lead negotiator on the Every Student Succeeds Act.
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