Digital learning poses an immense dilemma when it comes to ensuring quality. In this paper, Hess explores the pros and cons of input regulation, outcome-based accountability, and market signals as solutions to the quality challenge.

Today’s debates about teacher tenure, evaluation, or benefits hardly constitute an anti-teacher assault.

Public school teacher salaries are fair and their fringe benefits far outclass private saector jobs. In total, public school teachers are overpaid by more than 50 percent which costs governments over $100 billion annually.

Frederick M. Hess introduces the concept of "greenfield schooling" and its potential to free-up schools to be more responsive to communities and kids.

Educator Edwin J. Delattre has long been interested in character-building and the development of moral and intellectual integrity. His book Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing is considered a classic and is used in police academies all over the world.

The fifth edition of this enduring work—recently published by the...

When Research Matters asks the questions that are rarely asked about the difficult road from research to successful education policy.

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.

May is a month for poetry! Before it ends, the AEI cultural series will hold its fifth event. Last year Jody Bottum read from his book The Fall & Other Poems. Now Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, will talk about the role of...