For years, colleges of education have been criticized for failing to prepare teachers adequately. Are the criticisms justified? Can education schools be reformed? Should we find alternatives? Lynne Cheney will moderate a discussion of teacher preparation and what role colleges of education should play.

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After principal Eric Mahmoud introduced a new curriculum at Harvest Preparatory, a Minneapolis elementary school that serves many children from poor families, test scores shot up.

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, American educators have been debating what to teach students about the new threat posed by international terrorists. While the threat has intensified, the basic questions about the importance and role of civic education are similar to those faced by previous generations. In...

Adisdain for objective truth and principles has created a moral and intellectual crisis that threatens the foundation of our legal, political, and social order.

Standardized tests in the United States have made apparent that, despite spending more hours in the classroom, American students score lower than their international counterparts in science, math, and reading. These gaps exist across ethnic, racial, and economic classes. In his book The Knowledge Deficit (Houghton Mifflin, 2006), author E....

Senior Fellow Lynne V. Cheneyis returning to her research position at AEI following a five-month leave of absence during which she participated in the election campaign of President-elect George W. Bush and her husband, Vice President-elect Dick Cheney.

Twenty years ago this month, in its ominously titled A Nation at Risk, the National Commission on Excellence in Education delivered a devastating assessment of American education that helped shape two decades of reform. Warning that declining student achievement put the very foundations of American prosperity and security at...