The author discusses education and teacher-student relationships in the classroom.

If it is illegal to use tax-deductible funds to support teaching that has a political purpose, there may be an unanticipated consequence.

Twenty-five top college students will travel to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, D.C. this June to participate in the 2012 American Enterprise Summer Institute. 

This timely book brings together a remarkable group of authors who examine the federal role in education policy and reform during the past fifty years.

While the 1960s differentiated staffing movement fueled a new era of teacher quality consciousness, it failed to ignite the transformative reforms its leaders hoped for. If this innovative design is to take hold in 21st century schools, as we propose, then we should take a good long look in the rearview mirror before setting a new course.

Steven Brill’s Class Warfare is an immensely readable take on a slice of the “school reform” movement and an intriguing look at some key individuals in that effort. But, as is shown by its treatment of philanthropy, the book is perhaps more revealing for what its author omits—and how its blinkered view can mislead readers on big questions.

Larger changes in accountability and choice may be starting to help address the plight of urban school systems.

Calls for transformative change in American schooling have too often accepted the orthodoxies of the nineteenth-century schoolhouse. This Outlook offers a more promising vision for twenty-first-century, choice-centered reform.