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The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship (forthcoming)
Possibilities for School Reform
Edited by Frederick M. Hess
Posted: Wednesday, August 27, 2008

The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship examines the challenge of creating innovative and productive entrepreneurial activity in American education. [Read More]

Real Education
Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality
By Charles Murray
Posted: Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Charles Murray sweeps away the hypocrisy, wishful thinking, and upside-down priorities that grip America's educational establishment. [Read More]

When Research Matters
How Scholarship Influences Education Policy
Edited by Frederick M. Hess
Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2008

When Research Matters asks the questions that are rarely asked about the difficult road from research to successful education policy. [Read More]

No Remedy Left Behind
Lessons from a Half-Decade of NCLB
Edited by Frederick M. Hess, Chester E. Finn Jr.
Posted: Wednesday, August 1, 2007

This book is a sobering and important look at the nation's basic federal education law governing K-12 schools. [Read More]

Brookings Papers on Education Policy
2006/2007
Edited by Frederick M. Hess, Tom Loveless
Posted: Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Brookings Papers on Education Policy provides the latest thinking from nationally recognized experts on policy issues affecting grades K-12. [Read More]

Footing the Tuition Bill
The New Student Loan Sector
Edited by Frederick M. Hess
Posted: Friday, May 11, 2007

This book explores the purposes of federal student loans, how well traditional arrangements work, and how innovations might offer guidance for rethinking the design of financial aid. [Read More]

Educational Entrepreneurship
Realities, Challenges, Possibilities
Edited by Frederick M. Hess
Posted: Wednesday, September 6, 2006

This book contains numerous articles about the most important aspects of educational entrepreneurship. [Read More]

No Child Left Behind Primer
By Frederick M. Hess, Michael J. Petrilli
Posted: Monday, March 20, 2006

This book traces the heritage of No Child Left Behind, explains how it works, and examines the challenges of its implementation. [Read More]

Tough Love for Schools
Essays on Competition, Accountability, and Excellence
By Frederick M. Hess
Posted: Friday, January 6, 2006

This book insists that we must ask how schools can do more, rather than how they can get more, and that we be blunt and cleareyed in our assessments of both schooling and proposed reforms. [Read More]

With the Best of Intentions
How Philanthropy Is Reshaping K�12 Education
Edited by Frederick M. Hess
Posted: Monday, November 21, 2005

With the Best of Intentions offers lively perspectives on the role of philanthropy in K-12 education. [Read More]

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