Frederick M. Hess, AEI director of education policy studies and Education Week blogger, released today his second annual "Edu-Scholar Public Presence Rankings." Traditional measures of research productivity, which focus on academic publication, are useful in their own right, but do not offer as much insight into how education scholars influence thinking and the national discourse.

The authors propose that increased access be limited to data relevant in analyzing regulations that would have an annual economic impact of at least $100 million.

Today, RHSU unveils the 2012 Edu-Scholar Public Presence rankings. The metrics, as explained yesterday, are designed to recognize those university-based academics who are contributing most substantially to public debates about schools and schooling.

This volume will set the terms of the debate over the national research and innovation policy for years to come.

At this event, panelists discussed the emergence of geoengineering as a policy option and the congressional hearings being held on the subject.

U.S. policymakers must act now to add high-skilled immigrant workers to the American labor force--or risk falling behind in the global economy.

One could not ask for a better example of the corruption of American politics than William Cohen, allegedly the secretary of defense.

This collection of essays, contributed by some of the nation's top scholars and thinkers, takes on the weighty task of sizing up America.