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Author of The Knowledge Deficit E. D. Hirsch, Adjunct Scholar Abigail Thernstrom, Senior Fellow Lynne V. Cheney, and Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy Studies Frederick M. Hess |
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AEI's newest Outlook, Education Outlook, written by Frederick M. Hess, was launched in January.
In November 2006, Mr. Hess and Thomas B. Fordham Foundation president Chester E. Finn Jr. held a daylong conference on an important aspect of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), its remedy provisions. The revised conference papers were published in September 2007 as No Remedy Left Behind: Lessons from a Half-Decade of NCLB (AEI Press).
Mr. Hess continued his work on educational entrepreneurship at a conference in October looking at the "supply side" of innovative school reforms. Speakers included Teach For America founder Wendy Kopp and new D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee.
In May, the AEI Press released Mr. Hess's Footing the Tuition Bill: The New Student Loan Sector. The book charts the rise of private-sector student lending and served as a resource in the investigations of private lenders in the spring.
Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Richard D. Kahlenberg of the Century Foundation, and John Podesta of the Center for American Progress were among speakers at an October forum on Mr. Kahlenberg's new biography of union leader and education reformer Albert Shanker.
In a January series of Wall Street Journal op-eds, Charles Murray examined controversial topics such as intelligence and IQ, the purpose of a college education, more challenging education for the talented, and the importance of humility in the cognitive elite. Mr. Murray is working on a book about education and intelligence.
Papers from a major conference in May 2007 on the use of education research will be edited by Mr. Hess and published by Harvard Education Press in 2008.
Panelists at another May conference outlined the debate over international academic competitiveness versus "educational equity." Mr. Hess's June Education Outlook addressed these competing agendas.
Richard Vedder studies higher education at AEI under the auspices of the National Research Initiative. His research is featured on that page of this report.
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