Browsing: Rick Hess

Verdict: OVERREACTION. For starters, it’s good to recall that education is more than workforce preparation. (Schools are also tasked with…

A few weeks back, Education Week reported on a new survey of what teachers had to say about homework. The…

Having previously shared my concerns with the game-playing and argle-bargle endemic to social science, I found Ramirez’s precise rendering of…

Rick Hess: Michael, educators have heard a lot about what AI means for schools over the past few years. But…

First, keep in mind that none of the new skills are especially new. Critical thinking? Collaboration? Communication?  If you think…

Professor Philip Nel, an authority on “radical and anti-racist children’s literature,” endorsed removing six Dr. Seuss books from circulation because…

Democrats and higher education leaders cheered when the Obama and Biden teams used tortured interpretations of Title IX to promote…

I had hoped the book might offer a window into how our culture got this way. After all, the New…

We need to beat all the other countries that keep sending us murderers and mentally insane people. But so many…

In recent years, the academic struggles of America’s boys have gained heightened visibility. The leading scholar on this count may…