If education philanthropists want to influence policy, then they must open themselves to more public debate about their  plans and goals.

Virginia secretary of education Gerard Robinson laid out his vision for state education reform.

New York City's Department of Education is empowering school leaders and implementing accountability measures that will place its public schools on a path of positive results.

All children in a free nation have a moral claim to attend schools that will help them discover and develop their gifts. And while difficult choices must always be made, we should be wary of shaping schools in ways that explicitly favor some of our children while shortchanging others.

This new volume gives us the opportunity to identify what measures are necessary to reform an entire school system.

Turnarounds are not a scalable strategy for fixing America's troubled urban school systems, and the Obama administration needs to take a different approach.

"Greenfield," a term that investors, engineers, and builders use to refer to an area where there are unobstructed, wide-open opportunities to invent or build challenge, represents a challenge to create a world more welcoming to dynamic, talented, and hard-working educators.

The challenge of "greenfield schooling" is to cultivate environments that invite entrepreneurial ideas and to provide an infrastructure that allows those ideas to succeed on a wide scale.