Response to Jeffrey Keefe’s review of “Assessing the Compensation of Public School Teachers.”

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.

Harvard Graduate School of Education's Meira Levinson argues that recovering the civic purposes of public schools will take more than tweaking their curricula. Drawing on political theory, empirical research and her own experience from teaching at an all-black middle school in Atlanta, Levinson calls on schools to remake civic education.

As controversy over for-profits heats up, a discussion of how to harness the potential of such providers, while erecting the incentives and accountability measures needed to ensure a level, dynamic, and performance-oriented playing field, is sorely lacking.

Experts suggest a new way to look at education reform.

Recent economic research suggests that colleges siphon off a significant portion of federal education aid rather than lowering costs to students

Although we are far short of fostering a decent supply of dynamic, quality-conscious districtand charter schools, much has been learned along the way.

A financially induced crisis is developing in America's public universities, according Ronald Ehrenberg's What's Happening to Public Higher Education?