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.

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.

In "Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course in Getting His Kid into College," Andrew Ferguson is at his dazzling best, using humor and narrative as portals to very serious subjects.

Over the last thirty-five years, conceptions of legal fairness have become the norm in public schools as they have in other aspects of American life. But is legal fairness in schools really fair? By definition, legal fairness does not look past compliance to the effects of a policy on...

The authors of the November 2011 Heritage Foundation report “Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers” respond to questions and concerns, in the process showing that certain critical accusations—such as undercounting teachers’ work hours or overestimating retirement benefits—are simply false.

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From Brown v. Board of Education to “Bong Hits 4 Jesus,” the past fifty years have seen a striking rise in judicial supervision of education. From race to speech, from religion to school funding, from discipline to...