Do voucher programs force public schools into a zero-sum game by redirecting public funds and promising students to private schools? Or do school-choice options spur healthy competition by pressuring public schools to improve?

Do teacher incentives actually make our schools better? New research on North Carolina schools by Thomas Ahn of the University of Kentucky suggests that the answer is a definitive "yes."

Are there limits to federal involvement in K-12 education? What can the government really do well to improve schooling? Should it be involved at all? In this presidential election year, these and other educational hot topics are examined in Carrots, Sticks, and the Bully Pulpit: Lessons From a Half-Century of Federal Efforts to Improve America’s Schools

School systems across the country have adopted policies, such as Florida’s A+ program, that reward or sanction schools depending on how their students perform on standardized tests. The A+ program assigns schools a grade from A to F, based on how their students score in reading and math. While...

This volume explores when and how technology-based school redesign leads to improved teaching and learning, when it does not, and what this means in terms of dramatically improving the American high school.

Congress is currently tackling the issue of special education as it reauthorizes the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. For insight during the reauthorization process, all parties are taking a look at Florida’s McKay Scholarship Program for Students with Disabilities, which provides vouchers for special-education students. The McKay program...

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Please join AEI scholar Frederick M. Hess for an off-the-record luncheon discussion of urban school reform on Monday, June 13. Mr. Hess will present his new book Urban School Reform:...

A dismal fiscal picture may force state officials to compromise performance-based educational reforms launched in the 1990s. A new Urban Institute study explores how school districts allocate education dollars in the face of changing fiscal conditions.

At this event, Jane Hannaway, director of the...