Frederick HessHow diligently are school leaders protecting teacher time? In this article, Frederick Hess explores teaching strategies for improving teachers’ day-to-day.
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Frederick Hess
Frederick Hess
Rick Hess, an educator, political scientist, and author, is a senior fellow and the director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he works on K–12 and higher education. The author of Education Week’s popular blog “Rick Hess Straight Up,” he’s an executive editor of Education Next, a senior contributor to Forbes, and the founder and chair of the Conservative Education Reform Network. His many books include The Great School Rethink, A Search for Common Ground (with Pedro Noguera), Letters to a Young Education Reformer, Cage-Busting Leadership, and Spinning Wheels. Rick began he career as a high school social studies teacher and has also taught at the University of Virginia, the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown, Rice, Johns Hopkins, and Harvard. His work has appear in scholarly outlets such as American Politics Quarterly and Social Science Quarterly and in popular outlets including the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. He has a PhD in government and an MEd in teaching and curriculum from Harvard University.
