How many times have you heard Barack Obama talk about "investing" in education? Quite a few, if you've been listening to the president at all.In fact Americans have been investing more and more in education over the years, led by presidents Democratic and Republican. But it's become glaringly...

Wilfred M. McClay will deliver the April Bradley Lecture.

Disparities in the scoring of Race to the Top finalists raise red flags about the objectivity of the process, and that scoring may have been affected by political influences.

Tennessee's textbook at issue in the Scopes Monkey Trial promotes Darwinian biology--and racial eugenics.

Sadly, too many of our young people today are not only unaware of the great story of America.

News organizations should be ashamed for covering dysfunctional celebrities instead of compelling, legitimate role models.

In most U.S. schools, the serious study of history and civics has been replaced by a nebulous, content-light, and morally shaky "social studies" curriculum. As a result, American school children today know little about our nation’s founding principles, how the government functions, or what our forebears had to overcome...