The number of schools ranked highly in guides such as Barron's Profiles of American Colleges is increasing, without any evidence that these schools' instructional quality is also increasing. Applicants and their families should be wary of letting these rankings serve as the main criteria in their college decisions.

Under the banner of the American Educational Research Association, roughly 20,000 researchers will convene in Vancouver to report on research that can help fuel student learning and improve schools. If only they knew what wasn't enough.

Unless Congress acts, this summer the Pentagon will begin making across-the-board cuts in defense programs — cuts that will eventually be so deep that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has said they will end the United States’s status as a global superpower. Yet there seems to be...

Political dysfunction. Partisanship at record levels. Attack politics run amok. And public approval of Congress scraping the single digits (Sen. John McCain is fond of saying it's down to blood rlatives and paid staff).

Benjamin Jealous, president of the NAACP, will deliver a keynote address on the state of education reform in the United States.

Diane Ravitch discussed her new book "The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education."

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. 

What can be done to address the phenomenon that had been mostly invisible for a decade--boys falling behind girls in school?