Frederick Hess

Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, is an educator, author, and speaker. He has penned such influential books as Spinning Wheels, Cage-Busting Leadership, Letters to a Young Education Reformer, and A Search for Common Ground. A former high school social studies teacher, he has taught education and policy at universities including Georgetown, Harvard, Rice, Johns Hopkins, the University of Virginia, and the University of Pennsylvania. He is an executive editor of Education Next, where you can find his popular “Old School with Rick Hess” blog.