In an era marked by widespread belief that teacher quality may be the key to school improvement, determining how--and how much--to pay teachers is a vital concern.

Despite claims that Republicans are facing a civil war between moderates and the Tea Party, the tea-party gale has swept through the GOP and all that stands between the tea parties and victory in November is the Democrats.

Over the past fifty years, what have we learned about the nature of a smart, sensible federal role in K-12 schooling?

Two upcoming special elections, in Illinois and Delaware, may offer Senate Republicans the power to oppose a lame-duck session and block the controversial measures that Democrats may try to enact with the votes of defeated or retiring politicians.

While the media has focused on the rise of the Tea Party movement and the success of conservative insurgents in GOP primaries, there is a quiet insurgency taking place under the radar of more moderate Republicans for whom fiscal discipline is not a top priority.

In January 2003, James Bowman & Company marked the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the career of P. G. Wodehouse with a reading of three Jeeves stories. Now the group will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Evelyn Waugh with a reading from the author’s first novel,...

Republicans would not have a shot at taking back either the House or Senate were it not for the Tea Party movement, which has both energized the conservative base and attracted independents to the GOP by promising to reform the party and restore fiscal sanity in Washington.

While the Left claims to want bipartisanship and compromise, the incremental clicks of the ratchet only go in one direction: toward European-style social democracy.