When partnering with outside consultants to turn around a school, schools districts must consider how the work is setting schools up for long-term success.

This book by Alan Viard and Robert Carroll proposes to completely replace the income tax system with a progressive consumption tax.

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An intriguing experiment is afoot in some of the nation’s struggling public schools. New “Parent Trigger” laws passed in California and on the agenda in New York, Ohio, Colorado, and Chicago, allow parents of chronically failing schools to unseat the schools’ leadership and staff. But the initiative has pitfalls.

AEI's director of education policy Frederick Hess responds to the Department of Education's announcement of the second round of Race to the Top winners.

A new report outlines fifty-seven specific recommendations for restructuring financial regulation.

In 1998, U.S. district attorney for Southern California Alan Bersin was hired to run the San Diego City Schools. This June, he will depart San Diego as the nation's longest-serving big-city superintendent. During Bersin's tumultuous tenure, he achieved national prominence for his blunt challenge to the teachers' union and his...

This book takes on conventional wisdom and presents a comprehensive and coherent approach to the challenge of improving our schools.