Frederick M. Hess

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Frederick M. Hess

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According to Wikipedia, Frederick M. Hess is an American educator, political scientist, and author. He is a resident fellow and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. In addition to his blog "Rick Hess Straight Up" at Education Week, he is also a senior contributor to Forbes, an executive editor of Education Next, and a contributing editor to National Review. His books include Spinning Wheels, Letters to a Young Education Reformer, Cage-Busting Leadership, A Search for Common Ground, and The Great School Rethink.

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Learning to Lead: What Gets Taught in Principal-Preparation Programs1 (2007) (398)
Spinning Wheels: The Politics of Urban School Reform (1998) (283)
Tear Down This Wall: The Case for a Radical Overhaul of Teacher Certification. (2002) (134)
School Boards at the Dawn of the 21st Century: Conditions and Challenges of District Governance. (2002) (130)
An Innovative Look, a Recalcitrant Reality: The Politics of Principal Preparation Reform (2005) (120)
A License to Lead? A New Leadership Agenda for America's Schools. (2003) (114)
No Child Left Behind primer (2006) (103)
Making Civics Count: Citizenship Education for a New Generation (2012) (91)
Common Sense School Reform (2004) (78)
Revolution at the Margins: The Impact of Competition on Urban School Systems (2002) (75)
Minority Teachers, Minority Students, and College Matriculation: a New Look at the Role‐Modeling Hypothesis (1997) (73)
With the best of intentions : how philanthropy is reshaping K-12 education (2005) (70)
A Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom? Appraising Old Answers and New Ideas. (2004) (68)
School Boards Circa 2010: Governance in the Accountability Era. (2010) (67)
Small Districts in Big Trouble: How Four Arizona School Systems Responded to Charter Competition (2001) (61)
Diplomas and Dropouts: Which Colleges Actually Graduate their Students (and Which Don't). (2009) (59)
Leaving no child behind? : options for kids in failing schools (2004) (59)
A shrinking "digital divide"? The provision of classroom computers across urban school systems (2001) (55)
Leaving No Child Behind (2004) (51)
A Better Bargain: Overhauling Teacher Collective Bargaining for the 21st Century. (2006) (50)
School House Politics: Expenditures, Interests, and Competition in School Board Elections (2003) (49)
The Accidental Principal: What Doesn't Get Taught at Ed Schools?. (2005) (49)
Educational Entrepreneurship: Realities, Challenges, Possibilities. (2006) (47)
The Same Thing Over and Over: How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday's Ideas (2010) (47)
The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship: Possibilities for School Reform (2008) (47)
Revitalizing Teacher Education by Revisiting Our Assumptions About Teaching (2009) (44)
Cage-busting leadership (2013) (43)
Urban school reform : lessons from San Diego (2005) (40)
Seeking the Mantle of "Opportunity": Presidential Politics and the Educational Metaphor, 1964-2000 (2002) (38)
When research matters : how scholarship influences educational policy (2008) (37)
Keeping an Eye on State Standards: A Race to the Bottom?. (2006) (36)
No Child Left Behind Primer. Second Printing. Peter Lang Primer Volume 11. (2007) (34)
The Leadership Limbo: Teacher Labor Agreements in America's Fifty Largest School Districts. (2008) (33)
The New Stupid. (2009) (30)
No Remedy Left Behind: Lessons from a Half-Decade of NCLB (2007) (30)
Accountability without angst? Public opinion and no child left behind (2006) (29)
Reinventing public education (1999) (28)
Looking for Leadership: Assessing the Case for Mayoral Control of Urban School Systems (2008) (27)
The politics of bilingual Education expenditures in urban school districts (2000) (27)
State Education Agencies as Agents of Change: What It Will Take for the States to Step Up on Education Reform. (2011) (26)
The Case for Educational Entrepreneurship: Hard Truths about Risk, Reform, and Reinvention (2007) (26)
Reform, Resistance,. .. Retreat? The Predictable Politics of Accountability in Virginia (2002) (26)
Teachers’ Attitudes and the Success of School Choice (2004) (26)
Creating a Corps of Change Agents: What Explains the Success of Teach for America?. (2011) (25)
The futures of school reform (2012) (25)
The Predictable, but Unpredictably Personal, Politics of Teacher Licensure (2005) (25)
The Politics of No Child Left Behind: Will the Coalition Hold? (2005) (25)
Few States Set World-Class Standards: In fact, most render the notion of proficiency meaningless (2008) (24)
THE WORK AHEAD (2001) (23)
Quality, Race, and the Urban Education Marketplace (2001) (23)
Whaddya Mean you Want to Close My School? (2001) (23)
Desert Bloom: Arizona's Free Market in Education. (2000) (22)
None of the Above: The Promise and Peril of High-Stakes Testing. (2000) (20)
The Supply Side of School Reform (2008) (19)
But the Pension Fund Was Just SITTING There : The Politics of Teacher Retirement Plans (2009) (19)
Weighing the Case for School Boards: Today and Tomorrow (2010) (19)
A Political Explanation of Policy Selection: The Case of Urban School Reform (1999) (19)
Tough Love for Schools: Essays on Competition, Accountability, and Excellence (2006) (19)
Inflating the Life Rafts of NCLB: Making Public School Choice and Supplemental Services Work for Students in Troubled Schools (2004) (19)
When Education Research Matters (2008) (18)
Common Core Meets Education Reform: What It All Means for Politics, Policy, and the Future of Schooling (2013) (18)
Inside the Gift Horse's Mouth: Philanthropy and School Reform (2005) (18)
Common Core in the Real World (2013) (18)
Education Unbound: The Promise and Practice of Greenfield Schooling (2010) (17)
Wrong Turn on School Reform. (2009) (17)
Coping With Competition: The impact of Charter Schooling on Public School Outreach in Arizona (2005) (17)
How Traditional Public Schools Respond to Competition: The Mitigating Role of Organizational Culture (2010) (17)
Resistance in the Trenches: What Shapes Teachers' Attitudes Toward School Choice? (2000) (17)
Still At Risk: What Students Don't Know, Even Now: A Report from Common Core (2009) (17)
The Every Student Succeeds Act: What It Means for Schools, Systems, and States. (2017) (17)
Cages of Their Own Design. (2009) (16)
Who Chooses Experience? Examining the Use of Veteran Staff by House Freshmen (2004) (16)
Stretching the School Dollar: How Schools and Districts Can Save Money While Serving Students Best. Educational Innovations. (2010) (16)
The Opportunity to Engage: How Race, Class, and Institutions Structure Access to Educational Deliberation (2001) (16)
Johnny Can Read ... in Some States: Assessing the Rigor of State Assessment Systems (2005) (15)
Commentary: Accountability Policy and Scholarly Research. (2005) (15)
Lifting the Barrier. (2003) (15)
The Accreditation Game. (2002) (15)
Teacher Quality, Teacher Pay (2004) (14)
Teacher Quality 2.0: Toward a New Era in Education Reform. (2014) (14)
Carrots, Sticks, and the Bully Pulpit: Lessons from a Half-Century of Federal Efforts to Improve America's Schools. (2012) (14)
The Cage-Busting Teacher (2015) (14)
School Turnarounds: Resisting the Hype, Giving Them Hope. Education Outlook No. 2. (2009) (14)
What is a ‘Public School’? Principles for a New Century (2004) (13)
NCLB and the Competitiveness Agenda: Happy Collaboration or a Collision Course? (2007) (13)
Johnny Can Read… in Some States (2005) (13)
The new education philanthropy : politics, policy, and reform (2015) (13)
A Market for Knowledge (2010) (12)
Blueprint for Back to School (2020) (12)
In the Storm's Eye: How Race, Experience, and Exposure Shape Arizona Teachers’ Attitudes toward School Choice (2002) (11)
Hints of the Pick-Axe: The Impact of Competition on Public Schooling in Milwaukee. (2000) (11)
Textbook Leadership? An Analysis of Leading Books Used in Principal Preparation. PEPG 05-03. (2005) (10)
Learning to Succeed at Scale (2009) (10)
Philanthropy Gets in the Ring: Edu-Funders Get Serious about Education Policy (2012) (10)
Making Sense of the P-16 Push (2008) (10)
The Urban Reform Paradox. (1998) (10)
Reconsidering the Promise of Systemwide Innovation for Urban Districts (1998) (10)
Teacher education and the education of teachers (2008) (10)
What Innovators Can, and Cannot, Do: Squeezing into Local Markets and Cutting Deals. (2007) (10)
The Political Challenge of Charter School Regulation (2004) (9)
Computer-Assisted Learning in Urban Classrooms (1999) (9)
Break the link (2002) (9)
Leaders and Laggards: A State-by-State Report Card on Educational Innovation. (2009) (9)
Spend Money Like It Matters. (2011) (9)
What Did Race to the Top Accomplish (2015) (9)
Letters to a Young Education Reformer (2017) (9)
Inclusive Ambiguity: Multicultural Conflict in an Era of Accountability (2004) (9)
Survey Bias on the Front Porch (1999) (9)
College Rankings Inflation: Are You Overpaying for Prestige? Education Outlook. No. 3. (2012) (8)
America's Best (and Worst) Cities for School Reform: Attracting Entrepreneurs and Change Agents. (2010) (8)
Muffled by the Din: The Competitive Noneffects of the Cleveland Voucher Program. (2002) (8)
The Politically Correct University (2005) (8)
Technocracies, Bureaucracies, or Responsive Polities? Urban School Systems and the Politics of School Violence Prevention† (2003) (7)
Looking beyond the Schoolhouse Door (2006) (7)
Customized Schooling: Beyond Whole-School Reform. (2011) (7)
An Innovative Look , a Recalcitrant Reality (2005) (7)
An Innovative Look , a Recalcitrant Reality (2005) (7)
Held Back: No Child Left Behind Needs Some Work (2007) (7)
Teacher Pay and 21st-century School Reform (2008) (7)
Bringing the Social Sciences Alive: 10 Simulations for History, Economics, Government, and Geography (1999) (6)
"Moneyball" for Education Using Data, Evidence, and Evaluation to Improve Federal Education Policy. (2015) (6)
How to Get the Teachers We Want. (2009) (6)
The Challenges for Charter Schools: Replicating Success. Education Outlook. No. 4. (2009) (6)
The Profit Motive in Education: Continuing the Revolution (2012) (6)
Finding the Teachers We Need. Policy Perspectives. (2005) (6)
Politics and Sex-Related Programs in Urban Schooling (1999) (6)
Teaching America: The Case for Civic Education (2011) (5)
Quality Control in K-12 Digital Learning: Three (Imperfect) Approaches. Creating Healthy Policy for Digital Learning. A Working Paper Series from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. (2011) (5)
The Same Thing Over and Over (2010) (5)
The happy (and not so happy) accidents of Bush-Obama school reform (2018) (5)
Footing the tuition bill : the new student loan sector (2007) (5)
Courting Backlash: The Risks of Emphasizing Input Equity Over School Performance. (1998) (5)
Stimulating Excellence: Unleashing the Power of Innovation in Education. (2009) (5)
A Modest Proposal Regarding College Admissions (2019) (5)
Reinventing Tenure: What Schools Can Learn from Public Reform Policy. (1999) (5)
The Declining Significance of Space and Geography (2010) (4)
K-12 Budget Picture: Lean Years Ahead. Education Outlook. No. 10. (2010) (4)
Impact/Outcome Evaluation (2005) (4)
The Politics of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (2014) (4)
When Education Research Matters. Education Outlook, No. 1. (2008) (4)
Elevating College Completion. (2018) (4)
Data: No Deus ex Machina. (2013) (4)
The False Promise of Public Pensions. (2010) (4)
The Student-Loan System Needs a Major Overhaul. (2007) (4)
What Social and Emotional Learning Needs to Succeed and Survive. (2019) (4)
Expanded Learning, Expansive Teacher Leadership (2013) (4)
Assessing the Case for Mayoral Control of Urban Schools. Education Outlook. No. 4. (2008) (4)
The Numbers We Need (2009) (4)
Principals: Don't Settle for Rolling the Boulder (2013) (3)
Why Arizona Embarked on School Reform (and Nevada Did Not) (2018) (3)
Fueling Educational Entrepreneurship: Addressing the Human Capital Challenge. PEPG/07-06. (2007) (3)
College Readiness for All (2016) (3)
Speaking up for Better Schools. (2015) (3)
Some Practical Thoughts on the Design and Use of Social Studies Simulations. (1998) (3)
Letting a Thousand Flowers (and Weeds) Bloom: The Charter Story in Arizona. (2000) (3)
Breaking the Mold: Charter Schools, Contract Schools, and Voucher Plans (2003) (3)
Unbundling Schools (2010) (3)
The Priest and the Pit Bull. (2001) (3)
The PC Academy Debate: Questions not Asked (2010) (3)
The Politics of Knowledge (2008) (3)
Point-Counterpoint: Teacher Professionalism (2015) (3)
Combating the "Culture of Can't": School Leaders Have More Power Than They Think (2013) (3)
Unbundling Schools: Could Deconstructing Schools Enable Us to Find Smarter Ways to Restructure Them for Efficiency and Improved Learning? (2010) (2)
Cages of Their Own Design: Five Strategies to Help Education Leaders Break Free. Education Outlook No. 1. (2010) (2)
Busting out of the teacher cage (2015) (2)
Putting the Punch in Parent Power. Education Outlook. No. 5. (2012) (2)
The New Stupid: Limitations of Data-Driven Education Reform. Education Outlook. No. 1. (2009) (2)
Private Enterprise and Public Education (2013) (2)
Educational Entrepreneurship Today. (2016) (2)
Can Markets Set Bureaucrats Free? The Effects of School Choice on Teacher Empowerment in the Public Schools. (2000) (2)
Different Strokes for Different Folks. (2004) (2)
Can NCLB Survive the Competitiveness Competition? Education Outlook. Number 2. (2007) (2)
Strike Phobia: School Boards Need to Drive a Harder Bargain. (2006) (2)
To Fix Education, School Hours and Money Need to Be Better Spent. On the Issues. (2009) (2)
Rewriting the Job Description: The Teaching Profession in the Twenty-First Century. Education Outlook. No. 11. (2009) (2)
What next? : educational innovation and Philadelphia's school of the future (2010) (2)
Technical Difficulties: Information Technology Could Help Schools Do More with Less. If Only Educators Knew How to Use It (2004) (2)
School Quality, Race, and Class Revisited (2001) (2)
Can This Law Be Fixed? A Hard Look at the No Child Left Behind Remedies. Education Outlook. Number 3. (2007) (1)
Contestation versus Replacement: Republican Party Gains in Southern State Legislative Elections (2003) (1)
The Transformative Promise of “Greenfield” Schooling (2010) (1)
From School Choice to Educational Choice. Education Outlook. No. 3. (2011) (1)
Real World School Choice: Arizona Charter Schools (2018) (1)
Implementing Indiana's "Putting Students First" Agenda: Early Lessons and Potential Futures. (2012) (1)
Public Schools and the Public Interest. (2003) (1)
"Diverse Providers" in Action: School Restructuring in Hawaii. Education Outlook. No. 8. (2009) (1)
Education Reform's Deep Blue Hue: Are School Reformers Right-Wingers or Centrists-Or Neither? (2019) (1)
Doing the Same Thing over and over. Education Outlook. No. 11. (2010) (1)
"Diverse Providers" in Action: School Restructuring in Hawaii. Working Paper 2009-03. (2009) (1)
Making Sense of School Turnarounds. (2012) (1)
Common Core in the Real World: Created to Fix Problems That NCLB Either Started or Couldn't Fix Itself, the Common Core Faces Its Own Challenges-Seen and Unseen-During Implementation (2013) (1)
Teacher Labor Agreements: Formulas for Flexibility or Failure? Education Outlook. No. 3. (2008) (1)
Putting the Punch in Parent Power (2012) (1)
Lessons Learned in School Reform: Of Policy, Parents, and Practice. (2018) (1)
What School Leadership Texts Teach: An Analysis of Leading Volumes Used in Principal Preparation (2006) (1)
Fulfilling the Promise of School Choice. Education Outlook. No. 5. (2008) (1)
The Voice of the People. (2003) (1)
Still at Risk. Education Outlook. No. 2. (2008) (0)
"A Small School with Big Chances": The 21st Century Charter School at Gary. (2019) (0)
Book Review: Charter Schools: Hope or Hype? by Jack Buckley and Mark Schneider. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. 376 pp. $35.00 (cloth) (2008) (0)
How Schools Respond to Competition: The Mitigating Role of Organizational Culture (2005) (0)
Conversations along the Road. (2003) (0)
Predictions 10 Adequacy , Accountability , and the Impact of the No Child Left Behind Act (2012) (0)
Bookshelf: Kappan authors on their favorite reads (2023) (0)
Heads of State: How Decentralization Changes the Administrator's Role. (2000) (0)
Is Career and Technical Education Just Enjoying Its 15 Minutes of Fame (2019) (0)
Stretching the Higher Education Dollar ct introduction The New education Philanthropy (2015) (0)
The Pay-off for a Prestigious College Degree Is Smaller Than You Think (2020) (0)
chApter 5 Encouraging Diverse Suppliers (2008) (0)
The Market Approach to Education: An Analysis of America's First Voucher Program. John F. WittePolicy Entrepreneurs and School Choice. Michael Mintrom (2002) (0)
Popping the Tuition Bubble. On the Issues. No. 31. (2008) (0)
Fueling the Engine: Smarter, Better Ways to Fund Education Innovators (2010) (0)
What would a President Romney do? (2012) (0)
A Color-Coded Professoriate? On the Issues, Number 2. (2007) (0)
The Declining Significance of Space and Geography: Educational Technology Offers Both Promise and Challenge for a System That Assumes Learning Takes Place in a Defined Space and That Has Designed Schools and Districts According to Geography (2010) (0)
A New Leadership Agenda for America's Schools (2012) (0)
Public Concern about Education in 2016: What the Numbers Say. (2016) (0)
Errata (2009) (0)
The Work Ahead: Creating a Truly Competitive Market in Education Will Require Nothing Less Than a Complete Overhaul of the Rules and Culture of Public Schooling. (Forum) (2001) (0)
Education Agenda for the States. Fostering Opportunity from Pre-K through College. (2015) (0)
In the Storm's Eye: How Race, Experience, and Exposure Shape Arizona Teachers’ Attitudes toward School Choice (2002) (0)
10. The Effect of Party on Issue Emphasis in the 1994 House Elections (2000) (0)
9. George W. Bush’s Education Legacy (2020) (0)
How Arizona Teachers View School Reform (2018) (0)
Soaring School Spending. On the Issues. (2004) (0)
Reimagining American Schooling: The Case for Educational Entrepreneurship. Education Outlook, No. 4. (2007) (0)
Do Charter Schools Improve District Schools? Three Approaches to the Question (2018) (0)
Research Matters (2021) (0)
Career Imprinting in Education Career Imprinting at Baxter and Beyond (2009) (0)
Cage-Busting Leadership. Educational Innovations Series. (2013) (0)
Arne Duncan's Unlearned Lessons: A Window into Why the Left-Right School-Reform Coalition Unraveled (2019) (0)
Cage-Busting Leadership and the "Culture of Can't" (2013) (0)
Hess, Frederick, ed., When Research Matters: How Scholarship Influences Education Policy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2008. (2008) (0)
The Supply Side of School Reform Education's future (2008) (0)
Muffled by the Din: The Competitive Noneffects of the Cleveland Voucher Program (2002) (0)
Learning to Succeed at Scale. NACSA Monograph. (2008) (0)
The Transformative Promise of "Greenfield" Schooling: Removing Barriers to Innovation Is the First Step in Creating an Environment in Which Innovation Can Flourish (2010) (0)
Busting out of the Teacher Cage: Teacher Leadership Is in Fashion These Days, but Exercising Real Leadership Requires Teachers to Be Disciplined in Their Approach and Judicious in Their Requests (2015) (0)
Greenfield Schooling and Educational Innovation (2015) (0)
No Child Left Behind: What the Public Thinks. Education Outlook. Number 1. (2007) (0)
Rethinking the Teacher Quality Challenge. 2011 PIE Network Summit Policy Briefs. (2011) (0)
"Greenfield Schooling": How Policymakers Can Cultivate a Garden of Educational Innovation. Education Outlook. No. 3. (2010) (0)
Does Attending a More Selective College Equal a Bigger Paycheck (2020) (0)
In Lieu of Conclusions: Tentative Lessons from a Contested Frontier (2018) (0)
The Spinning Wheels of Urban School Reform (2003) (0)
Much Ado about Nothing: The Minimal Competitive Effects of the Cleveland Voucher Program. (2000) (0)
An Education Agenda for 2016: Conservative Solutions for Expanding Opportunity (2015) (0)
Mapping out Common Ground on Accountability in Higher Education. (2019) (0)
Comment (2003) (0)
No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learningby Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom. Simon & Schuster, 2003. 352 pp. $26.00 (cloth). (2004) (0)
The Passage of Charter Legislation in Virginia: The Role of Resistance, Party, and Regional Tension (2002) (0)
How to Steer the Tough Budget Road Ahead: Accelerate Your Performance (2011) (0)
The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship. Education Outlook. No. 7. (2008) (0)
Business Goes to School: How the Private Sector Can Improve K-12 Education (2007) (0)
Philanthropy Gets in the Ring: Eu - Funders Get Serious about Education Policy: If Education Philanthropists Want to Influence Policy, Then They Must Open Themselves to More Public Debate about Their Plans and Goals (2012) (0)
How to Get the Teachers We Want: Specialization Would Lead to Better Teaching and Higher Salaries (2009) (0)
What Our 17-Year-Olds Know (2008) (0)
Charter School Legislation in Virginia: How Race, Regional Tension, and the Absence of Crisis Produced a "Weak" Law (2000) (0)
Major Media Plays Favorites in Coverage of Education Policy (2018) (0)
Teachers Uncaged: Helping Educators Create Meaningful Change. (2015) (0)
Rethinking school time (2023) (0)
What Our 17‐Year‐Olds Know (2008) (0)
Authors Respond to Holmes (2009) (0)
A Blueprint for Back to School. Education Studies. (2020) (0)
Expanded Learning, Expansive Teacher Leadership: Done Well, Providing More Time for Students to Learn Can Be a Lever for Forcing Schools to Rethink How Teachers Teach and How They Lead (2013) (0)
Bush-Obama School Reform: Lessons Learned. Educational Innovations Series. (2018) (0)
The Numbers We Need: How the Right Metrics Could Improve K-12 Education. Education Outlook. No. 2. (2010) (0)
Hess, Frederick M., and Michael J. Petrilli, No Child Left Behind Primer. New York: Peter Lang, 2006. (2006) (0)
Debating Principles for Public Schooling in a New Century (2004) (0)
Rethinking an Icon: Kozol Reconsidered (2013) (0)

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