When partnering with outside consultants to turn around a school, schools districts must consider how the work is setting schools up for long-term success.

Washington D.C. can be a leader in public pension accounting reform and provide an example for municipal plans across the country-some of which are in dire condition-of how such reforms can serve to guarantee a stable pension system for municipal workers.

Frederick M. Hess addresses three topics deserving attention regarding education policy: collective bargaining, the potentially adverse consequences of ill-conceived federal efforts to redistribute those teachers who seem to be effective, and our limited ability to systematically identify "effective" teachers for purposes of federal policy.

The Obama administration should continue to bring sweeping ethics reform to Washington, realizing that there will be casualties along the way.

Here is another good news/bad news column about the 112th Congress.

In a complaint filed yesterday in U.S. District Court, Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri, aka Turkcell, the Turkish mobile media giant, alleges that MTN Group Ltd, Africa’s largest mobile operator, bribed Iranians, sold South African votes at the IAEA and UN, and otherwise prostituted South African foreign policy to oust Turkcell from its contract in Iran and gain the lucrative market for itself.

Intellectual property protection is a source of heightened competition among companies in the twenty-first century.

D.C. Council members are basically inviting lawyers to sue them by adopting language that is dangerously vague.