Rick Hess and Mike McShane: Education is a Handshake 

In their new book, Getting Education Right: A Conservative Vision for Improving Early Childhood, K–12, and College, Frederick M. Hess and Michael Q. McShane outline a principled conservative vision that could cultivate schools that are formative, flexible, and human. In this supersized Students Over Systems episode, Rick and Mike encourage conservatives to advocate for local control, tradition, and opportunity while avoiding the lure of The Next Big Thing in technocratic K-12 education policy. We discuss the extremely progressive teacher training cartel, parental responsibilities, setting clear expectations for school discipline, “grifters and lunatics” who prey on parents’ frustrations, Edmund Burke’s little platoons, and much more.

For more information, click below:

• Getting Education Right: A Conservative Vision for Improving Early Childhood, K–12, and College
• The Past and Future of Education Reform
• Reject Technocratic Illusions and Embrace Education Freedom