Arizona Sen. John McCain, who until yesterday barely said boo about education, now has the solution to our education ills:

Every child should be blessed with a teacher like I had, and to learn at institutions with high academic standards and codes of conduct that reinforce the values...

There's something to be said for starting with a blank page.

But the U.S. Department of Education is taking this to new levels and violating the spirit, or perhaps even the letter, of the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). And they're being secretive about an important issue: how...

Last week, Barack Obama touched off a serious discussion about race in this country and rightfully drew attention to the role education plays in the success, or the failures, of our nation's students.

He said:

"Segregated schools were, and are, inferior schools; we still haven't fixed them, fifty years after...

If you listen to Barack Obama on the campaign trail, he bashes President Bush's signature education law, No Child Left Behind, like any good Democrat would. But dig a little deeper, and this liberal seems much more like a centrist when it comes to education.

He's danced around the issues...

Now that John McCain has captured the GOP nomination, it seems fitting to closely examine his views on education.

That's not such as easy task.

Education only recently made the list of issues on his campaign web site. And I think this quote from a recent story...

As Democrats continue to fight over who should be their nominee, the nation's largest teachers' union, the National Education Association, wants to remind Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama that the union's endorsement is still up for grabs.

With that endorsement comes access to the 3.2 million members...

If you pay attention to the presidential debates, you'll notice that education barely gets a passing mention.

But it occurred to me during a recent Democratic face-off between Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama that perhaps the single most important thing that the next president can...