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

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?

New York City's Department of Education is empowering school leaders and implementing accountability measures that will place its public schools on a path of positive results.

This month, the Supreme Court will rule on its first-ever case involving genetically modified crops, which could effect the future treatment of such crops by the U.S. government.

Since the beginning of the climate change story more than 20 years ago, it has been hard to sort out whether the IPCC represents the “best” science, or merely the findings most compatible with the politically driven climate policy agenda. Both sets of Climategate emails have lifted the lid on the insides of the process, and it isn’t pretty.

The track record of judicial interventions suggests that increased school funding without other more fundamental changes typically does not lead to improved student performance.

There should not be a new paradigm for technology and innovation policy which focuses on the effects of globalization and the outsourcing of facilities.

Teachers are the most important school-level factor in student success—but as any parent knows, all teachers are not created equal. Reforms to the current quite cursory teacher evaluation system, if done well, have the potential to remove the worst-performing teachers and, even more important, to assist the majority in improving their craft.