Allie Kimmel

Research assistant for education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute

The teachers unions are under attack -- and not just from Scott Walker. In addition to attacks from politicians, media, and the public, some teachers have also voiced criticism of their unions.

Richard Whitmire

Veteran newspaper reporter, Author of The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation’s Worst School District

Americans continue to lose faith in their public schools, a Gallup poll reported recently. Less than a third of Americans said they had a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in schools. Why the drop?

Marian Wright Edelman

President, Children's Defense Fund

Every time a child is excluded from school by adults or is chronically absent without any actions to determine why, we are failing the child and undercutting the importance of education. Hundreds of years after Americans first made that connection, what will it take for us to get it again today?

Marian Wright Edelman

President, Children's Defense Fund

Many school children in America are on summer break right now, but here's a pop quiz about discipline policies in our nation's schools that's just for grownups.