CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: Advancing After Getting Education Right

Rick Hess, dean of the American Enterprise Institute’s excellent education policy shop, and Michael McShane, director of national research at the school-choice advocacy group EdChoice, have issued a guide to conservative education policy and philosophy. Policymakers interested in improving education could do worse than declaring Getting Education Right: A Conservative Vision for Improving Early Childhood, K-12, and College is “what we believe”—echoing the anecdote about British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who allegedly slammed a copy of Friedrich Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty on a conference table at a policy meeting while saying, “This is what we believe!” Policymakers could even do this in conjunction with Hess’s 2023 volume The Great School Rethink.