Americans are rightly concerned that schools are not providing students with the knowledge and habits necessary to be good citizens.

A new poll by AEI's Program on American Citizenship finds that Americans are deeply skeptical about school efforts to educate the next generation of voters. Our report also finds that teachers and the average American citizen have markedly different priorities.

Community colleges are subsidized through direct state and local government appropriations and through student grant programs. Every student who drops out represents an investment loss by the taxpayers in that student's uncompleted education.

Stop telling schools that they cannot teach about religious alternatives to modish culture.

Littleton shooting points to needs that have drawn less attention: closer parental supervision of children’s activities and greater concern in schools with the formation of character.

Once little more than a blip on the radar of American higher education, for-profit colleges now enroll about 1 in 10 of the nation’s postsecondary students. And this fast growth has not gone unremarked. The past year has brought unprecedented scrutiny and often harsh criticism of proprietary education from policy makers, regulators, and the news media.

A century from now, observers may well identify the last months of 2011 as the start of higher education’s Great Disruption.

This anthology uses the soul-shaping power of story, speech, and song to help Americans appreciate more fully who they are as citizens of the United States.