We have to face a key reality: Well-intentioned but disastrous mistakes are made by very intelligent, well-educated, highly informed people, backed by vast computing power and reams of data, but wrong nonetheless.

Almost everything you hear at graduations - and read on the internet, and watch on television - focuses on the idea of work, especially entrepreneurship, as a means of self-expression and (to use the term from David Brooks) self-actualization.

When partnering with outside consultants to turn around a school, schools districts must consider how the work is setting schools up for long-term success.

President Obama's speech on Afghanistan has left supporters and opponents alike wondering if he has a strategy there at all -- or is just trying to split the difference between fighting and abandoning an unpopular war.

As NATO summits go, this weekend's meeting of the alliance's members in Chicago may be memorable if only for being the least memorable one in recent history. Of course, quiet summits are not necessarily bad summits. 

The United States has a vital interest in making sure that popular protests for freedom in the Middle East are not squelched--and that they do not cascade into upheaval that results in extremist regimes.

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?

Rather than seizing on current fiscal realities to streamline and improve schools, far too many states and districts are proceeding as if it is business as usual, kicking the can down the road until they are forced to make clumsy, last-minute, disruptive cuts.