What matters for China is not whether Westerners believe the system is cracking. The question is: How do the Chinese view their own system?

AEI director of education policy studies Frederick Hess explains in his new book that we need to completely rethink today's teaching and schooling.

Tackling Medicare is essential to meaningful health care reform, but Congress seems willfully blind to urgency of fixing Medicare.

Education leaders often act lazily, blaming union contracts and federal regulation rather than confronting the problems they have the capacity to solve.

At the heart of the debate over renewing No Child Left Behind, the nation’s education reform act which is overdue for reauthorization, is the question: what is the role of the federal government in K-12 education? Though the law was initiated and signed by a Republican president, presidential candidates like Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, who once supported it, now talk about getting the federal government out of education. Democratic reformers, meanwhile, insist that the federal government has a role in telling states how to identify, punish and fix low-performing schools — despite little evidence that Washington has been good at any of these tasks.  Over the last decade, AEI Education has been exploring these concerns.

As the 110th Congress convenes, fresh from honoring Gerald Ford in the Rotunda and at the National Cathedral, its leaders should reflect on what he brought to the House.

Across the Middle Eastthis summer, I heard the voices of people who genuinely yearn for freedom. Their voices are stronger today than ever before.