Do teacher incentives actually make our schools better? New research on North Carolina schools by Thomas Ahn of the University of Kentucky suggests that the answer is a definitive "yes."

A significant bloc of voters seems to have soured on the Democrats since Barack Obama took office and the 111th Congress went to work.

As Virginia is becoming less Republican, Mark Warner has a good chance of winning a Senate seat for the Democrats.

We can debate the best way forward tomorrow. But today we celebrate a victory in the war on terror, and the demise of the man who ordered the deaths of Dan Shanower and nearly 3,000 others on Sept. 11, 2001.

Congress and the Bush administration are wrestling with proposals to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). While debate has focused on the provisions regarding testing, teacher quality, and identifying schools in need of improvement, little attention has been paid to the law’s ambitious cascade of remedies and sanctions...

Educator Edwin J. Delattre has long been interested in character-building and the development of moral and intellectual integrity. His book Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing is considered a classic and is used in police academies all over the world.

The fifth edition of this enduring work—recently published by the...

Success in relief and recovery operations will depend in no small part on the strength of the Japanese government, but a very weakened premier must lead Japan through what Naoto Kan rightly calls its greatest crisis since World War II.

This Outlook articulates a vision of twenty-first-century teacher leaders--who work collaboratively to accomplish their goals--and explains the issues that might arise for schools and districts implementing this new model.