AEI’s Rick Hess and USC’s Pedro Noguera reflect on the whole Common Ground exercise and consider what it takes to have constructive dialogue.<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 book, A Search for Common Ground: Conversations about the Toughest Questions in K-12 Education.

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.