High-quality residency programs are swell, but before the eight states that have signed onto the NCATE and the Department of Education get too far ahead of themselves, take a breath to make sure this has a happy ending.

Though many observers believe that education policy is an ideal issue to promote bipartisanship, the midterm elections may have made this more difficult.

Education has a long tradition of bipartisanship in Washington, but a look at the upcoming midterm elections suggests that the odds that education bipartisanship will maintain its vaunted status in 2011 are looking bleak.

Uncle Sam's ability to directly address teacher distribution warrants skepticism.

The case for or against mayoral control rests more on practical experience than on hard evidence.

Title-nining the physical sciences is a bad idea.

A surprisingly high number ofseventeen-year-olds do not know details about significant events in U.S. history.

No Child Left Behind could have a bright future--if its accountability provisions are meaningful.