Twenty-five top college students will travel to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, D.C. this June to participate in the 2012 American Enterprise Summer Institute. 

Grand claims about the transformative power of technology in education are common, yet decades of high school redesign have yielded mixed results. One of the most widely touted efforts to tackle these challenges has been the School of the Future in the Philadelphia School District, created in 2006 through a...

This volume explores when and how technology-based school redesign leads to improved teaching and learning, when it does not, and what this means in terms of dramatically improving the American high school.

Barack Obama's election seemed to signal a fading away of identity politics, but he himself has made identity politics news again with his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court in Ricci v. DeStefano dealt a final blow to racially motivated hiring.

The proportional-representation systems that the Justice Department is considering will not remedy violations to the 1965 Voting Rights Act or erase race from American politics.

Is Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which was designed to prevent disenfranchisement of minorities, still serving its purpose today?

New Orleans seems determined to preserve the reforms brought on by Katrina. The question is whether it can sustain the innovative momentum in the face of old habits--and new storms.