The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) increased federal involvement in America’s public schools by mandating state-imposed sanctions on schools failing to meet state-determined standards. Through NCLB, the federal government requires students in grades 3 through 8 to take standardized tests in reading and math. The law’s legitimacy rests...

The authors of the November 2011 Heritage Foundation report “Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers” respond to questions and concerns, in the process showing that certain critical accusations—such as undercounting teachers’ work hours or overestimating retirement benefits—are simply false.

We may be approaching what some consider to be a landmark measure of black progress: whether or not Americans will elect a black president.

Survey of male-female and black-white differences.