Getting Education Right
Teachers' College Press (Verlag)
978-0-8077-6947-8 (ISBN)
In Getting Education Right, Rick Hess and Mike McShane argue that America has too long suffered from the absence of a robust, coherent, and principled conservative vision for educational improvement. The book both diagnoses a problem and offers a solution. The problem? The right has too narrowly focused on school choice, campus speech, and shrinking Washington’s footprint, while the left has sought to subsidize and supersize the status quo. The solution? An education system imbued with shared values, respectful of family ties, and equipped for the challenges of the 21st century. Rooted in fundamental conservative principles, the book explains both how we got here and where we need to go when it comes to early childhood, K–12, and higher education. Eschewing performative polemics, this book offers a field guide to bringing education back to its formative mission. Readers from across the ideological spectrum will benefit from engaging with the provocative analysis Hess and McShane offer, whether or not they agree with the policies they propose. Education is the foundation on which America’s future will be constructed, and Getting Education Right provides a timely blueprint for that project.
Book Features:
A conservative vision for the direction of American education in early childhood, K–12, and higher education.
A stimulating and informative presentation for audiences across the ideological spectrum.
An explanation of what it means to be a conservative in education today applied to a series of crucial questions about American schooling.
A readable and accessible text with plenty of anecdotes, provocative data points, and real-world solutions.
Authors who are especially well-suited to this task given their prominence as influential conservative scholars and pundits.
Frederick M. Hess is a senior fellow and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and author of the popular Education Week blog, “Rick Hess Straight Up.” Michael Q. McShane is director of national research at EdChoice and an opinion contributor to Forbes.
Contents
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xix
1. Core Values 1
What Makes a Conservative in Education? 5
The Beliefs That Anchor Our Approach to Education 10
The Book Ahead 19
2. A Bit of History 21
The Origins of Our Education System 22
Post-War Conservatism and the Nation’s Schools 24
The 1980s and 1990s: A Nation at Risk 25
The 2000s: No Child Left Behind 27
The 2010s and the Pandemic: Backlash Against Bureaucracy 28
Lessons Learned 30
3. Pro-Family Policies 37
Enmeshing Families in Webs of Support 41
Building Family-Friendly Communities 44
Direct Financial Support for Families 47
Navigating an Online Childhood 49
Overhauling Adoption and Foster Care 52
4. Early Childhood Education 57
The Elephant in the Room 59
The Other Elephant in the Room 64
Little Platoons for Little People 65
ESAs for Every 3- and 4-Year-Old 67
Workplace-Based Child Care 68
Resisting the Nanny State 70
5. K–12 Education 73
The World After School 75
The Handshake Between Student and Teacher 77
What Do We Want From Schools? 78
A Conservative K–12 Agenda 82
Custodial School Reform 90
6. Higher Education 93
Wisdom vs. Wokeness 95
Groupthink and Orthodoxy 98
Embrace the Logic of Unbundling 99
Control College Costs 101
Make Sure College Enrollment Is a Choice 103
Protect Free Inquiry 105
Stop Subsidizing Payoff-Based College Admissions 108
Don’t Just Fix Colleges, Build Them 109
Getting Higher Ed on the Right Track 111
7. Questions & Answers 113
8. What Now? 129
The Recess Rorschach Test 131
Plenty More Where That Came From 132
A Forward-Looking, Healthy Conservatism 134
Education That Values Our Little Platoons 136
Free to Reimagine 137
Putting a Vibrant Conservatism to Work 139
Endnotes 143
Index 161
About the Authors 167
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.02.2024 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 381 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8077-6947-9 / 0807769479 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8077-6947-8 / 9780807769478 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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