On Tuesday, Linda Darling-Hammond and I published an op-ed “How to Rescue Education Reform” in the New York Times.  The piece has generated a number of notes, with several asking how the piece came about.

If you want to copy China because its authoritarian capitalism is better than our democratic capitalism, it seems pretty obvious that what you envy is the authoritarianism. H. G. Wells had a phrase for that.

Andy Smarick and Frederick M. Hess respond to the first round Race to the Top announcement by the Department of Education.

Join us for a discussion of the rare earth elements and the policy ramifications of their scarcity, geographic distribution, environmental impacts, and near-monopolistic market.

The idea that China is practicing a new form of capitalism, and may even be “doing capitalism better than America,” is reaching a fever pitch in policy and business circles.

We got more tussle and a whole bunch of dumb questions in the Meet the Press/NBC/Facebook/Union Leader/Channel 7 debate (are these things improved by having more sponsors? No) this morning.

In his latest AEI Education Stimulus Watch report, former deputy assistant secretary of education Andy Smarick notes that Race to the Top's success is premature and drastically inflated.

At this AEI event, scholars will discuss what to make of the administration's current agenda and what to expect in the future.