Getting Education Right: A Conservative Vision for Improving Early Childhood, K-12, and College - Softcover

Frederick M. Hess (author) & Michael Q. McShane (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807769460 ISBN 13: 9780807769461

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2024

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807769460
• ISBN 13: 9780807769461
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192