In a recent post, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) education expert Andrew Kelly highlights a notable trend: prestigious academic institutions are beginning to offer open, online courses. Kelly explains that if employers and less prestigious colleges begin to accept the credit earned in these...

A century from now, observers may well identify the last months of 2011 as the start of higher education’s Great Disruption.

Leaders would do well to develop a more sophisticated understanding of "fear" and "love."

Although unilateral freeing of trade is generally less beneficial than reciprocity, it can trigger "sequential" reciprocity through example or by encouraging lobbies abroad to favor trade expansion.

Murray Aitken, vice president of IMS Health, the world's largest source of drug-price and sales data, and MIT professor Ernst Berndt will explain why their research shows that average drug prices for seniors have declined, not increased, by more than 20 percent.

This is the first book to evaluate public-private partnerships in a broad range of policy areas.

Minimum wage laws do harm in the short run and in the long run. People acquire lots of valuable human capital in their first jobs. The longer those first jobs are pushed out of reach, the longer it takes low-skill workers to develop crucial capacities that can put them on a promising career path.

With school districts clamoring to partner with Sal Khan, in 2012 we’re going to hear a lot about the transformative potential of the “flipped classroom.