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June 13, 2023
The Great School Rethink
In The Great School Rethink, education policy sentinel Frederick M. Hess offers a pithy and perceptive appraisal of American schooling and finds, in the uncertain period following pandemic disruption, an…
June 8, 2023
Oklahoma Has Approved the Nation’s First Religious Charter School. What’s That Mean?
…the notion of religious charter schools. Here’s what she had to say. —Rick Rick: Oklahoma just approved the nation’s first religious charter school. You’ve been in the middle of that. Can…
May 31, 2023
Choice Reconsidered
Discussions of school choice frequently fall into familiar morality plays: Either you’re for empowering parents or supporting public education. The resulting debate manages to miss much of what matters. It ignores that…
May 10, 2023
AI Tutoring Has a Lot to Offer. But so Does Human Mentoring.
In education policy circles, there’s a lot of enthusiasm regarding the promise of AI-enabled tutoring. After all, a huge stumbling block for tutoring has been the limited number of affordable, reliable, and…
April 28, 2023
Social Capital: What Is It?
…of people interacting in patterned ways to pursue shared ends. We might think of a school as a brick building or a neighborhood as a collection of houses aligned to…
April 20, 2023
Religion’s Refusal to Die
…commenced on the evening of April 20, with a conversation between Yeshiva University’s Meir Soloveichik and University of Notre Dame’s Patrick Deneen, who debated the extent to which religious communities…
March 2, 2023
The Lost World of Ecumenical Republicanism
…Nixon’s Surprising Social Policy deserves a place in the pantheon of gossipy Washington micro-histories. Its author, John Roy Price, served in the Nixon White House under the tutelage of Daniel Patrick…
February 14, 2023
Brave New Technology
…it goes. The pieces change shape, size, and color and require the people who live within them to grow and adapt. The trick is ensuring that as the puzzle morphs,…
January 3, 2023
Systemic Disadvantage
…in the black community, has also grown significantly in the low-income white population. When Daniel Patrick Moynihan sounded the alarm over the breakdown of the black family in 1965, unmarried…