Race to the Top is fundamentally about two things: creating political cover for state education reformers to innovate and helping states construct the administrative capacity to implement these innovations effectively.

Will the Obama administration's Race to the Top (RTT) program initiate a self-sustaining cycle of education reform in states? Will states deliver on their promised reforms?

This chapter will assess the political, strategic, and tactical competence of the Bush administration in the area of education policy and offer some reflections on the president's educational legacy.

Are there limits to federal involvement in K-12 education? What can the government really do well to improve schooling? Should it be involved at all? In this presidential election year, these and other educational hot topics are examined in Carrots, Sticks, and the Bully Pulpit: Lessons From a Half-Century of Federal Efforts to Improve America’s Schools

Over the past fifty years, what have we learned about the nature of a smart, sensible federal role in K-12 schooling?

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.

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has fundamentally reshaped debates about American schooling by mandating that students in each district school make “adequate yearly progress.” Schools and districts that fail to improve are subjected to a five-year “cascade” of remedies and sanctions. These detailed prescriptions are intended to force...

This book contains numerous articles about the most important aspects of educational entrepreneurship.