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RESEARCH AREAS
Education
AEI is devoting significant attention to education policy, examining such topics as school financing, the No Child Left Behind Act, educational accountability and entrepreneurship, education research, student loans, teacher education and certification, higher education, and urban school reform. This section of the website gathers together AEI research, books, and events focused on education.
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Feature: Education Stimulus Spending
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| On Monday, a joint report from the White House and the Department of Education announced that the administration's education stimulus spending had, to use words favored by the administration, "created or saved" 250,000 education jobs. AEI adjunct fellow Andy Smarick, who has been tracking the $100 billion in K-12 education spending that is part of the stimulus package, is not surprised by the administration's claim. In two of his Education Stimulus Watch reports, he predicted and then found that states and school districts would take the federal dollars and use them to backfill existing budget holes. The problem is, as Smarick notes on AEI's Enterprise Blog, that the money "was intended to--and should--be used for education reform, not just preserving existing jobs and programs."
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Scholars on Education Featured Project
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The Turnaround Fallacy
Turnarounds are not a scalable strategy for fixing America's troubled urban school systems, and the Obama administration needs to take a different approach.
Reinventing the Wheel
We need to pull the plug on the administration's 'Online Skills Laboratory.'
Math in American High Schools
Data show a disconnect between the rigor of the math education that high schools claim to be delivering and the quality of the math education that students are actually receiving.
The Misguided "Online Skills Laboratory"
While seeking to make college more affordable and accessible, the Obama administration has launched a worrisome but largely unnoticed assault upon the nation's publishers and the vibrant market in online learning.
The Politically Correct University
Problems, Scope, and Reforms
Edited By Frederick M. Hess
, Robert Maranto, Richard E. Redding
AEI Press
(September 2009)
Robert Maranto, Richard E. Redding, and Frederick M. Hess, along with nineteen other scholars and practitioners, examine how the politically correct imperative to promote "diversity"--of race, ethnicity, and gender, but not of ideas--has diverted higher education from its true purposes.
The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship
Possibilities for School Reform
The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship examines the challenge of creating innovative and productive entrepreneurial activity in American education.
Real Education
Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality
Charles Murray sweeps away the hypocrisy, wishful thinking, and upside-down priorities that grip America's educational establishment.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
09:00 AM - 04:30 PM
Leading higher education researchers and practitioners will present their findings explore the findings’ implications for designing and...
Monday, December 7, 2009
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
At this event, various approaches towards educational entrepreneurship will be discussed.
PAST EVENTS
Thursday, October 8, 2009
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
This event will discuss the Obama administration's education policy and the future of education.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
This event will discuss how education leaders can leverage new school management practices to best serve K-12 students.
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