In 2020, Rick Hess and Pedro Noguera engaged in a long-running correspondence that tackled many of the biggest questions in education — including topics like school choice, equity and diversity, testing, privatization, the achievement gap, social and emotional learning, and civics. They sought to unpack their disagreements, better understand one another’s perspectives, and seek places of agreement or points of common understanding. Their correspondence appears in their book, A Search for Common Ground: Conversations About the Toughest Questions in K-12 Education (Teachers College Press, 2021). In this article, they reflect on the exercise, what they learned from it, and what lessons it might offer to educators, education leaders, researchers, and policy makers.

2020年，里克·赫斯（Rick Hess）和佩德罗·诺格拉（Pedro Noguera）进行了长期交流，解决了教育中许多最大的问题，包括学校选择，公平和多样性，测试，私有化，成就差距，社会和情感学习以及公民等主题。 。他们试图消除分歧，更好地了解彼此的观点，并寻求共识的地方或共识的要点。他们的书信出现在他们的书《寻找共同点：关于K-12教育中最棘手的问题的谈话》（教师学院出版社，2021年）中。在本文中，他们将对练习进行反思，从中学到的东西，以及可以为教育者，教育领导者，研究人员和政策制定者提供的课程。