AEI's Rick Hess and USC's Pedro Noguera discuss the challenges schools face as they return to yet another school year with COVID-19 still present. The two strive to transcend the red-blue divides that often appear on questions of mask and vaccine mandates, school closures, social distancing, and more.<a href="https://www.aei.org/research-products/book/a-search-for-common-ground-conversations-about-the-toughest-questions-in-k-12-education/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Learn more</a> about Rick and Pedro's recent book, A Search for Common Ground: Conversations About the Toughest Questions in K-12 Education.

School boards and superintendents

AEI Education’s Rick Hess and USC Rossier School of Education Dean Pedro Noguera, who often fall on different sides of the ideological aisle, push past posturing and polarization to search for understanding and common ground when it comes to the nation’s toughest education questions. Each month, the two talk through the pressing education issues of the moment.