At this event, one of a series of Nixon Legacy Forums sponsored by the Richard Nixon Foundation, four members of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's White House staff will discuss his relations with Nixon and their collaborations on welfare reform, education policy, and other issues.

Are there limits to federal involvement in K-12 education? What can the government really do well to improve schooling? Should it be involved at all? In this presidential election year, these and other educational hot topics are examined in Carrots, Sticks, and the Bully Pulpit: Lessons From a Half-Century of Federal Efforts to Improve America’s Schools

Bill Gates and Arne Duncan referenced the newest AEI-Fordham volume, Stretching the School Dollar, in their support of education reform.

The No Child Left Behind Act is the hallmark domestic accomplishment of the George W. Bush administration"s first term, and it is proving to be a spectacularly contentious one.

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

The ability of technology to "disrupt" long-established business practices--dramatically changing the landscape of industries by increasing access, cutting costs, and revolutionizing delivery--has been a subject discussed for decades and is the topic of Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen’s iconic volumes, The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution. Yet,...

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From Brown v. Board of Education to “Bong Hits 4 Jesus,” the past fifty years have seen a striking rise in judicial supervision of education. From race to speech, from religion to school funding, from discipline to...

Fifty years ago, the National Defense Education Act—America’s response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik—was the first serious federal foray into K-12 education. Forty years ago, LBJ injected the federal government into education through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Twenty years ago, the report A Nation at Risk put...