The recession has pinned education policy in a tough spot: Our schools must both produce more skilled workers and do so as efficiently as possible. Innovative models of career and technical education could go a long way toward threading this needle.

Even as charter schooling has been at the forefront of education reform efforts, we know remarkably little about how these schools approach this critical dimension of education. What have charter schools done with the opportunity to rethink civic education? Are there lessons to be learned? Are there challenges that impede their ability to teach citizenship?

The following report presents the results of research on school boards and their members so as to provide parents, voters, policymakers, advocates, and educators with an informative look at the individuals and bodies charged with governing America's schools.

Providing consumers with better information about college costs and quality would help hold postsecondary institutions accountable. Two new voluntary accountability systems miss the mark.

Although Democrats in Congress are clamoring for the White House to be more forthcoming about the direction of the war on terrorism, the public isn't upset by the administration's actions.

The government should get out of higher education funding.

Effective school leaders are the key toreform strategies in our schools today. Yet,today"s preparation programsare not teachingwhat is required for21st-century school leadership.

Education reformers must consider whether school districts are the best way to organize schooling, a question which has been too often ignored.