The number of schools ranked highly in guides such as Barron's Profiles of American Colleges is increasing, without any evidence that these schools' instructional quality is also increasing. Applicants and their families should be wary of letting these rankings serve as the main criteria in their college decisions.

A recent AEI political analysis shows that postgraduates were 20 percent of the electorate and leaned Democrat. Do the over-educated have no more common sense than those with no education?

Public school teacher salaries are fair and their fringe benefits far outclass private saector jobs. In total, public school teachers are overpaid by more than 50 percent which costs governments over $100 billion annually.

Since Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed him chancellor of the New York City Department of Education in 2002, Joel Klein has drawn headlines, praise, and criticism for his hard-nosed leadership of the nation’s largest public school system. His tenure has become a leading example for those arguing for and against mayoral...

Teachers are the most important school-level factor in student success—but as any parent knows, all teachers are not created equal. Reforms to the current quite cursory teacher evaluation system, if done well, have the potential to remove the worst-performing teachers and, even more important, to assist the majority in improving their craft.

The authors of the November 2011 Heritage Foundation report “Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers” respond to questions and concerns, in the process showing that certain critical accusations—such as undercounting teachers’ work hours or overestimating retirement benefits—are simply false.

Properly targeted incentives can improve not only remediation programs for underprepared college students but also can reduce the number of underprepared college students enrolled in American colleges and universities.

College rankings are useful in trying to distinguish the great from the mediocre and the good values from the rip-offs.