Well, welcome back to the Bill Bennett Show, exposing the existential threats to America

and discussing the news of the day.

Joining us is Rick Hess.

Fred Rick Hess.

We're going to talk about his new book, The Great School Rethink.

Rick Hess is Director of Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

He writes, Education Weeks Rick Hess straight up log in as a senior contributor to Forbes.

All right, let's get into the great school rethink.

Our guest is Rick Hess.

Why do we need a great school rethink?

You know, because we've been doing the things that Horace Mann taught us to do for the

better part of two centuries.

And I don't know how well it worked in the late 1800s, early 1900s, but today with what

our kids need, with the workforce we have, with the way it fails to take advantage of tools

we've built, it's just nowhere close to getting the job done for kids and families.

Is that because we're using an old system?

I mean, does that, do we lay the blame on Horace Mann or fail you to improve on him or

I mean, he had a lot right.

I mean, he had a big task, right?

You'd unify a country, right?

Yeah, I mean, he had a lot right.

He had a lot wrong because the anti-caflic thing was, I think, oh, yeah, I remember that.

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