Moderator: Howard Husock, Vice President, Policy Research
Respondent: Frederick Hess, Director of Education Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute

In her new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, the eminent historian and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch chronicles the evolution of her thinking about education reform. Long a proponent of choice and test-based accountability in schools, today she has become a critic of these strategies.

Frederick M. Hess, resident scholar and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, has been a consistent supporter of school choice. His new book, Education Unbound, is a roadmap for reformers and educators who are eager to pioneer new strategies or take advantage of new technologies to reinvigorate our struggling public schools.

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