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 sought to subsidize and supersize the status quo. The solution? An education system imbued with shared values, respectful of family ties, and equipped for the challenges of the 21st century. Rooted in fundamental conservative principles, the book explains both how we got here and where we need to go when it comes to early childhood, K–12, and higher education. Eschewing performative polemics, this book offers a field guide to bringing education back to its formative mission. Readers from across the ideological spectrum will benefit from engaging with the provocative analysis Hess and McShane offer, whether or not they agree with the policies they propose. Education is the foundation on which America’s future will be constructed, and Getting Education Right provides a timely blueprint for that project. Book Features: A conservative vision for the direction of American education in early childhood, K–12, and higher education.A stimulating and informative presentation for audiences across the ideological spectrum.An explanation of what it means to be a conservative in education today applied to a series of crucial questions about American schooling.A readable and accessible text with plenty of anecdotes, provocative data points, and real-world solutions.Authors who are especially well-suited to this task given their prominence as influential conservative scholars and pundits.
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Argues 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.
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Contents Preface  xiii Acknowledgments  xix 1. Core Values  1 What Makes a Conservative in Education?  5 The Beliefs That Anchor Our Approach to Education  10 The Book Ahead  19 2. A Bit of History  21 The Origins of Our Education System  22 Post-War Conservatism and the Nation’s Schools  24 The 1980s and 1990s: A Nation at Risk  25 The 2000s: No Child Left Behind  27 The 2010s and the Pandemic: Backlash Against Bureaucracy  28 Lessons Learned  30 3. Pro-Family Policies  37 Enmeshing Families in Webs of Support  41 Building Family-Friendly Communities  44 Direct Financial Support for Families  47 Navigating an Online Childhood  49 Overhauling Adoption and Foster Care  52 4. Early Childhood Education  57 The Elephant in the Room  59 The Other Elephant in the Room  64 Little Platoons for Little People  65 ESAs for Every 3- and 4-Year-Old  67 Workplace-Based Child Care  68 Resisting the Nanny State  70 5. K–12 Education  73 The World After School  75 The Handshake Between Student and Teacher  77 What Do We Want From Schools?  78 A Conservative K–12 Agenda  82 Custodial School Reform  90 6. Higher Education  93 Wisdom vs. Wokeness  95 Groupthink and Orthodoxy  98 Embrace the Logic of Unbundling  99 Control College Costs  101 Make Sure College Enrollment Is a Choice  103 Protect Free Inquiry  105 Stop Subsidizing Payoff-Based College Admissions  108 Don’t Just Fix Colleges, Build Them  109 Getting Higher Ed on the Right Track  111 7. Questions & Answers  113 8. What Now?  129 The Recess Rorschach Test  131 Plenty More Where That Came From  132 A Forward-Looking, Healthy Conservatism  134 Education That Values Our Little Platoons  136 Free to Reimagine  137 Putting a Vibrant Conservatism to Work  139 Endnotes  143 Index  161 About the Authors  167
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“Rick Hess and Mike McShane are two of the smartest—and, more important, wisest—experts on education we have. Ready with compelling ideas and clear prose, they are the teachers we need right now.” —Ramesh Ponnuru, editor, National Review
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780807769478
Publisert
2024-02-23
Utgiver
Vendor
Teachers' College Press
Vekt
381 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
192

Biographical note

Frederick M. Hess is a senior fellow and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and author of the popular Education Week blog, “Rick Hess Straight Up.” Michael Q. McShane is director of national research at EdChoice and an opinion contributor to Forbes.