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What's Happening to Public Higher Education?
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| The Shifting Financial Burden |
| By Richard Vedder |
| Posted: Monday, December 1, 2008 |
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A financially induced crisis is developing in America's public universities, according Ronald Ehrenberg's What's Happening to Public Higher Education?
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The New Stupid
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| By Frederick M. Hess |
| Posted: Friday, November 21, 2008 |
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Educators have made great strides in using data. But danger lies ahead for those who misunderstand what data can and cannot do.
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The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship
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| By Frederick M. Hess |
| Posted: Thursday, November 20, 2008 |
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The most intriguing reforms in K-12 education today are entrepreneurial ventures.
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The Supply Side of School Reform
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| By Frederick M. Hess |
| Posted: Friday, November 7, 2008 |
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The future of education cannot be built on familiar assumptions. Instead, we must embrace new opportunities that answer new challenges in unforeseen ways.
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Let's End Adolescence
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| By Newt Gingrich |
| Posted: Thursday, November 6, 2008 |
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Young people need to shift more quickly from childhood to adulthood.
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The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship: Part I
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| An Interview with Frederick Hess |
| By Frederick M. Hess, Michael F. Shaughnessy |
| Posted: Wednesday, November 5, 2008 |
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There are possibilities for school reform, but some of the avenues are fraught with peril, some are complex and byzantine and others are restrained by fiscal difficulties and cash flow.
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The Costs of Failure Factories in American Higher Education
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| By Mark Schneider |
| Posted: Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
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College graduation rates are worse than high school graduation rates. The costs of this abysmal performance to students and taxpayers are high.
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How to Turn Schools Around
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| By Frederick M. Hess, Thomas Gift |
| Posted: Friday, October 24, 2008 |
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Turnarounds offer the opportunity to take familiar educational institutions and improve them through coaching, mentoring, capacity building, best practices, and other existing tools.
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The New Kindergarten
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| By Douglas J. Besharov, Douglas M. Call |
| Posted: Friday, October 17, 2008 |
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Universal pre-K is caught in the midst of middle-class and interest-group politics. As usual, the most disadvantaged children may lose out.
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Getting Past Generic "Choice"
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| Rethinking Supply and Demand in Schooling's Social Market |
| By Frederick M. Hess, Bruno V. Manno |
| Posted: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 |
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The design challenge for school choice is to match supply with demand.
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