This volume provides insightful analysis that legislators, administrators, and consumers can use to engage institutions of higher education in the difficult but necessary conversation of accountability.

This book provides the historical backdrop crucial to understanding how Iranian pride and sense of victimization combine to make its politics contentious and potentially dangerous.

In this book, top experts evaluate the potential and the problems of NCLB in its initial stages of implementation.

This book takes on conventional wisdom and presents a comprehensive and coherent approach to the challenge of improving our schools.

At this AEI event, Bruce Bartlett will discuss his new book, which proposes that a value-added tax is the most effective way to improve the nation's fiscal imbalance.

In K-12 education, it’s difficult to find stakeholders who will declare that poor schools should be closed and ineffective teachers should be fired; that teaching experience is not essential to being a school principal; that schools should be more cost-efficient; or that profit-driven competition might be good for public education....

This conference will provide an in-depth look at two key provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act two years after its creation. Increased public school choice-meant to encourage the improvement of traditional public schools and the availability of supplemental services (essentially free tutoring services)-are intended to provide positive education...

In Common Sense School Reform (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), AEI resident scholar Frederick Hess cuts through the sentiment and obfuscation that suffuse the school reform debates. He exposes the insufficiency of reform strategies that rest on solutions like class size reduction, small schools, and enhanced professional development. Hess believes...