The future is on the way.  Leading-edge innovators, we are assured, have already moved on, and are earnestly focusing on the just the sort of problems - manufacturing, energy, transportation (and I'd add healthcare) - that urgently require imaginative solutions.

"Considering that Congress does not plan to zero out the federal role in education, we should be taking a closer look at what the federal government can and cannot do well in education. Congress must consider past successes and failures. An ESEA informed by what the federal government can do well--like promote transparency--will be most promising"

Join us to hear U.S. Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.), chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, discuss the Student Success Act and the Encouraging Innovation and Effective Teachers Act prior to their introduction in the U.S. House.

This nation isn’t great because we work as a team with the president as our captain. America is great because America is free. It is great not because we put our self-interest aside, but because we have the right to pursue happiness.

The role of free enterprise in American culture is a defining issue of the day. None of the major policy questions that dominate the public discussion—tax rates, the deficit, broadband, roads—can be understood without a clear vision of the proper relationship between the government and the private sector. And this requires a theory of free enterprise.

While Obama calls for free enterprise to drive innovation, he also calls for more government spending in biotechnology, which is almost exclusively a private-sector function.

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.