I don’t know how many times I’ve seen liberal commentators look back with nostalgia to the days when a young man fresh out of high school or military service could get a well-paying job on an assembly line at a unionized auto factory that could carry him through to a...

President Obama’s remarks on inequality, stoking populist anger at “the rich,” suggest that the theme for his reelection bid will be not hope and change but focus on reducing class disparity with government help. But this effort isn’t limited to economics; it is playing out in our nation’s schools as well.

What do we learn if the Thiel fellows go on to be wildly successful? That taking the most academically gifted students in the country and putting them in an awesome program flush with resources is a good idea. It doesn't tell us much of anything about whether higher education is a good investment more generally.

Every complex society is run by an elite, including our society.

It is time for the United States to accomodate the needs of its intellectual elite.

Making sure that all gifted students hit their own personal walls is crucial for developing their empathy with the rest of the world.

One of the special tasks in the education of the gifted is to steep them in the study of how good applies to virtue.

Those who argue for reform that's about overall excellence and improving the opportunities for all students have been tarred in recent years as anti-reform or racist. But laudable efforts to help our least fortunate students need not come at the expense of the rest. We can do much better by all our children--and the first step is escaping the pinched confines of the achievement-gap mentality.