Rick Hess is director of education policy studies at AEI. He’s an executive editor of Education Next, a contributing editor to National Review, founder of AEI’s Conservative Education Reform Network, and author of Education Week’s iconic blog “Rick Hess Straight Up” and Education Next’s popular “Old School with Rick Hess.” His work has appeared in scholarly outlets including Urban Affairs Review, Harvard Educational Review, and Social Science Quarterly, and in popular outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, and The New York Times. His books include Getting Education Right, The Great School Rethink, Letters to a Young Education Reformer, The Same Thing Over and Over, and A Search for Common Ground. He started his career as a high school social studies teacher and has also taught education and policy at Harvard, Georgetown, Rice, Johns Hopkins, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Virginia. He holds an MA and a PhD in government and a MEd in teaching and curriculum from Harvard University.
