Response to Jeffrey Keefe’s review of “Assessing the Compensation of Public School Teachers.”

The notion of a U.S. Public Service Academy can be traced to George Washington’s vision of a national university located in the nation’s capital. Such a university, Washington and his supporters believed, could develop national leadership, set a standard for academic excellence, and help bind the nation together. Today, this...

Charles Murray has been selected to receive the American Enterprise Institute's Irving Kristol Award for 2009.

The ability to make cost-effective exploratory efforts is a powerful enabler of innovation. Unfortunately, drug development is far less conducive to this sort of exploration.

The eminent social scientist and writer Charles Murray has been selected to receive the American Enterprise Institute's Irving Kristol Award for 2009.

A new proposal to launch a U.S. Public Service Academy has drawn much attention. Two essays provide a provocative look at this ambitious policy proposal.

The No Child Left Behind Act is driven by education politics.

Is the "no excuses" approach to schooling sustainable, and can it be widely reproduced?