Sustainable gains must be inextricably rooted in the strengths of our constitutional democracy. Lasting improvements must be organically connected to an open society which prizes the exchange of ideas.

Now that the president was reelected, with unions playing a vital role as team players, and with the defeats of the most extreme "reformers" in Indiana, Idaho, South Dakota, and elsewhere, the tone of Fordham Institute's conservatives is different.

WASHINGTON -- Hoping to build on state-level reforms aimed at closing the education achievement gap, the Education Department opened its Race to the T...

The real cost of producing college and career ready graduates depends on the student population and the risk factors they bring to school. We need to align state funding systems with our academic goals and create incentives for the services we want to see.

As the tenth anniversary of No Child Left Behind approaches, the obvious question about bubble-in mania is being asked by Mark Schneider in "Has the Accountability Movement Run Its Course?"

They announce that, "The digital revolution needs excellent teachers." Instead, I'd say, "The shift to personal digital learning will leverage excellent teachers."

Students performed marginally better over the last two years on the nation's most reliable math and reading exam, according to results released Tuesda...

In the eyes of Michael Petrilli, education discussions and policies based on the disparity in performance between subgroups of U.S. students -- known ...

In the eyes of Steven Brill, the American Federation of Teachers building a website attacking Michelle Rhee and masking its origins is worse than Rhee...

It seems that the D.C. think tanks are absolutely dedicated towards further encouraging this trend and destroying any efforts to retain equitable class sizes in our public schools.

In the end, I fear that students will indeed continue to be losers as our public schools are turned over to private corporations.

This is the state of American education: we keep talking about playing the game, how to score it, the dimensions of the court, the uniform colors of the referees -- but we don't play the game.

They command six-figure salaries. No, we're not talking rock stars, pro athletes or even pro coaches. We're talking school superintendents.

The corporate community and most venture philanthropists, persist in thinking schools should be run like businesses. This time around though, instead of the factory model school, they have bequeathed us the latest business fads.