AEI education expert Mark Schneider and Lu Michelle Yin explore the harmful consequences of low community college graduation rates and propose policy solutions in the latest edition of Education Outlook.

India’s education policies should encourage private initiative and focus on learning outcomes

American Enterprise Institute (AEI) president Arthur C. Brooks has announced that AEI scholar Leon R. Kass, M.D., is the recipient of AEI’s 2012 Irving Kristol Award. Dr. Kass will receive the award and deliver the Irving Kristol Lecture at AEI’s annual dinner on Wednesday, May 2, 2012, at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.

At this AEI event, speakers discussed what the latest reforms mean for Medicare, whether the program is up to the job, and what is at stake for doctors and patients.

Join us for a discussion of what the midterm elections will mean for the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (or No Child Left Behind), the Common Core, potential future rounds of Race to the Top, the regulation of for-profit colleges, and other pressing issues.

Over the past fifty years, what have we learned about the nature of a smart, sensible federal role in K-12 schooling?

With the nation’s worst schools languishing, there is much talk about the need to turn schools around. But what does a school turnaround actually look like? What obstacles does it face in terms of implementation and policy? What aggressive restructuring efforts have been tried so far, and what impact have...

Diane Ravitch discussed her new book "The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education."