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Society and Culture, Education

Edu-implications of yesterday’s Supreme Court Medicaid ruling

Frederick M. Hess | June 29, 2012, 1:18 pm

The Court limited Uncle Sam’s ability to withhold aid from states which refuse to comply with new federal mandates. This has potentially big impacts on current and future education policymaking. read more >

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Society and Culture, Education

Romney’s education plan: A promising start

Frederick M. Hess | May 24, 2012, 9:37 am

Yesterday, presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney unveiled his education program in a speech at the Latino Coalition’s Annual Economic Summit. The plan’s themes are good ones: school choice, innovation, transparency, focusing on bang-for-the-buck, and welcoming new quality providers (including for-profit … read more >

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Society and Culture, Education

4 thoughts on the sorry Stafford loan spectacle

Frederick M. Hess | April 26, 2012, 1:26 pm

Five years ago, in a piece of cheap political theater, Congress wrote an additional sweetener for federally subsidized Stafford loans into the College Cost Reduction and Access Act. Beyond offering college loans at a guaranteed rate of 6.8%, Congress temporarily … read more >

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Society and Culture, Education

Why we shouldn’t oversell the benefit of having more students in ‘advanced’ classes

Frederick M. Hess | February 13, 2012, 11:50 am

Last fall, I wrote about the problems with our decade-long national mania for “closing [race- and income-based] achievement gaps” in K-12 education. Our relentless efforts to boost reading and math proficiency among the most disadvantaged students have caused us to … read more >

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Society and Culture, Education

SOTU: Nothing new on education

Frederick M. Hess | January 25, 2012, 9:55 am

President Obama (like President Bush before him) has used education to signal to centrists and moderates that he’s no ideologue. Where Bush used No Child Left Behind to demonstrate his “compassionate conservatism,” Obama has used education reform to make the … read more >

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