Obama's shifting views on school vouchers won't score points with anyone other than the NEA and AFT. His strategy aims to woo the teachers unions as 2012 approaches.

We are scholars and analysts who support school choice in some fashion, though we have varied perspectives regarding the optimal nature, extent, and design of choice-based arrangements. Choice's track record so far is promising and provides support for continuing expansion of school choice policies.

Programs in Milwaukee and New York City give low-income parents vouchers to pay for tuition at the school they choose for their children.

Communities around the nation interested in school choice received a flashing green light when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a Milwaukee case, thereby finessing the acrimonious church-state issue, at least for now.

School choice supporters have been disappointed by the results of standardized test scores. It is time to acknowledge that standardized test scores are a terrible way to decide whether one school is better than another.

Easter Monday is a good day to celebrate a resurrection story – in this case, the resurrection of a movement to rescue children trapped in failing public schools.

School choice "works" in some respects and some instances, but choice alone could never work as well as many of its champions have expected, and promised.