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

While most discussion of school choice focuses on charter schooling and school voucher programs, the fastest-growing form of choice in the United States is tuition tax credit programs. Now operating in Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Iowa, and Georgia and benefiting about one hundred thousand students, these programs use the...

Does public single-sex education have a future in the USA?

In recent decades, our education expectations have skyrocketed, with policymakers today insisting that all students need to master skills once thought the province of the elite. We need schools far more capable than the one-size-fits-all bureaucracies of an earlier era.

Frederick M. Hess explains why dramatic transformation is both essential and consistent with the fundamental principles of democratic schooling, and what it might mean to rethink our ways of teaching and schooling.

A coherent vision for federal education policy starts not by micromanaging schools, but by focusing on the four functions Washington alone can perform.

Diane Ravitch discussed her new book "The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education."

Even as charter schooling has been at the forefront of education reform efforts, we know remarkably little about how these schools approach this critical dimension of education. What have charter schools done with the opportunity to rethink civic education? Are there lessons to be learned? Are there challenges that impede their ability to teach citizenship?