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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: Making the Grade on Innovation
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| Do U.S. schools have the ability to respond to twenty-first-century educational challenges? What is the innovation gap in American education? A new report, Leaders and Laggards: A State-by-State Report Card on Educational Innovation, sets out to answer these important questions. AEI's Frederick M. Hess, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the Center for American Progress graded states on whether they are creating environments in which improvements in education can take root. "The results," according to the report, "were deeply troubling." [Read more]
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Scholars on Education Featured Project
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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
Monday, December 7, 2009
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
At this event, various approaches towards educational entrepreneurship will be discussed.
PAST 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 implementing effective accountability systems for higher education.
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.
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