Under Title I--the major provision of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act--the federal government has provided more than $200 billion to schools with children from low-income familes. The goal of this program, reauthorized as the No Child Left Behind Act, is to raise the achievement of children...

The American Constitution uses competition to promote good government and private competition. The founders regarded competitive enterprise as a critical source of prosperity and national strength. The causes of the decline of competitiveness in our political institutions are many and complex. But certainly one of them is a decline in public appreciation for the virtues of competition.

Joseph Antos and Ximena Pinell find that enrollment in the Medicare prescription drug discount programrequires better consumer access to program information.

The Title I program has had no systematic, positive effect on student achievement, and it does not contribute significantly to closing the achievement gap for poor and minority students.

In recent decades, policy research has focused on proposed and newly developed government programs and has tended to neglect concrete analysis of continuing ones.

H.R. 4489 focuses on a specific market: prescription drug coverage for federal employees; the legislation would impose a wide variety of restrictions, controls, and mandates.

Before taking this year's American Lung Associationreport at face value, reporters should ask the ALA report's authors a few questions to clarify the report's biases.

Congress should revisit the Medicare prescription drug program and insist on significant market-based reforms, not merely an ever-expanding array of benefits.