Indicators show that schools have failed. Citizens should insist on real change.

Mayoral control over Detroit public schools must meet a number of requirements in order to work.

By catering to unions, the Obama Democrats are seeking to take the United States back to a system that produced huge inefficiencies and rigidity in the private sector.

Resident Scholar Frederick M. Hess Wracked by low achievement, abysmal dropout rates and plunging enrollment, the Detroit Public Schools have spent years struggling...

All children in a free nation have a moral claim to attend schools that will help them discover and develop their gifts. And while difficult choices must always be made, we should be wary of shaping schools in ways that explicitly favor some of our children while shortchanging others.

By allowing their well-reasoned and often well-founded critiques of government action to metastasize into a categorical rejection of all prospective government action, while continuing to deny the basic political economy of the welfare state, conservatives increasingly find themselves in an ideological and practical straightjacket.

Turnarounds are not a scalable strategy for fixing America's troubled urban school systems, and the Obama administration needs to take a different approach.

Market-based school reforms have not delivered because they were never designed to succeed. The challenge for champions of choice is to understand what happened and what comes next.