It has been fifty years since the Warren court struck down the principle of separate but equal in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education. To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of this landmark decision, Secretary of Education Rod Paige will comment on the current state of American public education, the promise...

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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...

AEI visiting fellow available to comment on the Supreme Court decision regarding racial balancing cases.

State education agencies and their chiefs must transform the SEA into an agent of change that can assist districts in the crucial task of remaking our public schools to meet the needs of our children in the 21st century.

The fascinating departure from the usual pabulum from centrists who insist that they are neither right nor left is nothing less than a desperate abandonment of Obama and the Democratic party in order to preserve the credibility of the ideas driving Obama and the Democratic party.

Secretary of Education Rod Paige spoke at AEI on January 7 about the progress that has been made in combating racism in education.

An intriguing experiment is afoot in some of the nation’s struggling public schools. New “Parent Trigger” laws passed in California and on the agenda in New York, Ohio, Colorado, and Chicago, allow parents of chronically failing schools to unseat the schools’ leadership and staff. But the initiative has pitfalls.

Watch the GOP reactions to the Supreme Court school cases.