American Enterprise Institute (AEI) president Arthur C. Brooks has announced that AEI scholar Leon R. Kass, M.D., is the recipient of AEI’s 2012 Irving Kristol Award. Dr. Kass will receive the award and deliver the Irving Kristol Lecture at AEI’s annual dinner on Wednesday, May 2, 2012, at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.

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.

A new poll by AEI's Program on American Citizenship finds that Americans are deeply skeptical about school efforts to educate the next generation of voters. Our report also finds that teachers and the average American citizen have markedly different priorities.

Americans are rightly concerned that schools are not providing students with the knowledge and habits necessary to be good citizens.

A recent study suggests that private schools are more conducive than public schools when it comes to preparing students for the rigors of citizenship.

A survey of over 1,000 public and private high school civic studies teachers says American high schoolers do not know what it means to be a citizen.