Calls for transformative change in American schooling have too often accepted the orthodoxies of the nineteenth-century schoolhouse. This Outlook offers a more promising vision for twenty-first-century, choice-centered reform.

In this era of constrained resources, how can schools cut costs, eliminate inefficient spending, and fuel school improvement?

Grand claims about the transformative power of technology in education are common, yet decades of high school redesign have yielded mixed results. One of the most widely touted efforts to tackle these challenges has been the School of the Future in the Philadelphia School District, created in 2006 through a...

With top-down reform in bulky school bureaucracies failing, education reformers should focus on creating fertile environments for entrepreneurs to develop innovative solutions.

Schools under restructuring in Hawaii partner with outside organizations at a much higher level than schools on the mainland; Hawaii has put in place support mechanisms to facilitate partnerships with these external providers.

Educators lack the data necessary to pinpoint concerns and successes in schools, but through six key steps, data-driven management in education could become a reality, and the data, if collected and analyzed correctly, could be used to foster improvements in education.

The most intriguing reforms in K-12 education today are entrepreneurial ventures.