Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (June 8) about the belt-tightening that will hopefully take place if the $23 billion edujobs bill dies in Congress...

Beijing has extended its educational tentacles into 90 countries, including the U.S...

Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week about whether American kids need a longer school day, a longer school year, more time on task, or more customized learning experiences...

Hurrah for the Education Policy Council of Florida’s House of Representatives for endorsing the bold teacher-reforms of pending bill HB 7189, now headed for the House floor tomorrow or Thursday. This pathbreaking legislation–twinned with an identical measure already approved by the State Senate–has many moving parts but three of its provisions are noteworthy.

Thousands rallied on the National Mall on March 21 in support of comprehensive immigration reform, including the DREAM Act…. Do you suppot the DREAM Act?

How many days a year did the future Alexander the Great study with Aristotle? . . .

For five good reasons, conservatives should take seriously the potential of the newly released (in draft form) “common” education standards to strengthen U.S. education. . . .

If the nation's education system finally makes a meaningful turn for the better, March 10 may very well mark the turning point. . . .

Diane Ravitch’s important new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, will surely stir controversy, exactly as she intends. . . .

Is 2010 the year for No Child Left Behind? . . .

Any national tests and standards need to be strong, substantive, and well administered. . . .

The education-reform debate as we have known it for a generation is creaking to a halt . . . .

What the stimulus really stimulates. . . .

While the Senate is consumed by health care, other problem topics are piling up...

What kind of education would one need to make sense of the current health-care debate?...

The campaign for universal preschool education in the United States has gained great momentum...

The College Board, as always, hung a smiley face on it but the latest SAT results are a real bummer...

If America's elementary and high schools laid a sounder educational foundation for more of their students, America's colleges would be far more successful at constructing a solid and artful edifice atop it...

Vacation gave me the opportunity to catch up with a bit of early American history, particularly the eventful last two decades of the 18th century...

The RAND Corp.'s new study of preschool (“Preschool Adequacy and Efficiency in California”) confirms the wisdom shown by Golden State voters in 2006 when they decisively rejected Proposition 82, also known as the “Rob Reiner Preschool for All Initiative.”...

It's easy to assume that government-financed preschool would do much to cure what ails American education if only it were provided to everybody...

President Obama has pledged to spend $10 billion more a year on "zero to five" education, and his 2010 budget makes a $2 billion "down payment" on that commitment...

Ever since I came into contact with government, both state and federal, and especially in the four decades since first going to work in it, I've been struck by the gap between what many Americans expect of government and what it's actually good at doing...

The positive findings in the Education Department's recent evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program provide more evidence that high-quality private and parochial schools can have invaluable benefits for low-income, minority students...

Public education stands to receive some $100 billion from the enormous economic-stimulus package enacted last month by Congress, about one-eighth of the total...

President Obama’s address to Congress is earning plaudits for its honesty, candor, and can-do/will-do/must-do spirit...

Few doubt that we're living through profound changes on many fronts...

The private sector takes education to India's slums...

Version 2.0 contains laudable goals but little actionable policy...

School reform is bloody hard--Admiral Rickover compared it to moving a graveyard--and harder still in big cities...

As the new school year and the climactic period of the presidential election both commence, the future of federal education policy is murkier than ever before...

In his seminal 1961 book, Excellence, John W. Gardner posed the question, “can we be equal and excellent too?”...

Today marks the 25th anniversary of "A Nation at Risk," the influential Reagan-era report by a blue-ribbon panel that alerted Americans to the weak performance of our education system...

It's the 800-pound gorilla of U.S. education....

Yes, I’ve learned plenty in the 57 years since I entered 1st grade in Dayton, Ohio’s Fairview Elementary School, and the four decades since I taught social studies at Newton High School in Massachusetts...

The president wasn’t wrong when he said during his State of the Union address that the No Child Left Behind Act is “succeeding,” though he cherry-picked the available evidence to document his claim...

President George W. Bush's signature education reform -- the No Child Left Behind Act -- is coming in for a close inspection in Congress...

With every passing week, the 110th Congress looks less likely to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the fate of which will therefore hinge on the 2008 election...

In a globalizing economy, America's competitive edge depends in large measure on how well our schools prepare tomorrow's workforce...

History offers many explanations for why people should acquire a broad, liberal-arts education...

The United States isn’t the only land where primary-secondary schooling was traditionally the responsibility of the states or provinces, while the national government played a minor, even peripheral role...

K-12 education should abound with opportunities for entrepreneurial activity...

With all the trappings of an IMPORTANT WASHINGTON EVENT, including the presence of the top Democrats and Republicans on the Senate and House education committees, the Commission on No Child Left Behind yesterday unveiled a report that should be called “No Idea Left Behind...."

In his State of the City address yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg announced sweeping reform in how New York City funds public education...

To be a heartfelt Republican has gotten hard in recent years, but while we were in charge in Washington and most state capitols it was easy, though perhaps unwise, to keep still about this...

There should be efforts to very actively recruit middle-class people into neighborhood schools and make sure these really are schools that prepare kids for college...

Charter schools have taught us much...

Predictably, Diana Jean Schemo and the New York Times found front-page, above-the-fold space on Saturday to cover on a new National Center for Education Statistics report, drawn from 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress data, that finds private schools only slightly more effective than public when analysts control for income, race, parent education, and such…

For young Americans in 2006, world history must no longer be seen as an elective subject…

There is no dispute about the charter school movement's growth to 3,300 schools enrolling close to a million children.

U.S. high school education remains sorely afflicted, both by sky-high dropout rates and by weak academic achievement among those who do finish.

We are headed toward the quarter-million-dollar B.A.

Washington's ambitious goal of getting every young American to the "proficient" level is akin to crossing the Grand Canyon

What started as an effort to improve the teaching profession has turned instead into professionalizing teacher improvement.

One found little in the curricular suggestions about who attacked us and why.

The commission's report hit like a bomb when it declared that the weak performance of America's schools placed the nation itself at risk.

This halfhearted choice provision was supposed to take immediate effect for pupils in more than 8,000 schools that have already lingered for two years or more on their states' lists of education failures.

The charter movement itself cannot decide whether it is a trade association obliged to defend every school that wears the charter label or an education reform movement responsible for ensuring that only good schools are so labeled.

There are not nearly enough qualified people to lead some 91,000 public schools and nearly 15,000 school systems.

If just three-quarters of young Americans—and barely half of black and Latino students—are managing to graduate from high school on time, we've got a whopping problem.

There will, in fact, be no fundamental overhaul of this LBJ-era legislation, despite decades of evidence of its failure. But there will definitely be a whopping price tag.

This power grab is carefully concealed under the fig leaf of “teacher professionalism.”

Almost 1,700 charter schools now operate in the United States, enrolling 300,000 youngsters. In the District of Columbia and Trenton, 10 percent of all schoolchildren attend them. In Kansas City, it's 13 percent.

This collection of eleven essays is specialized, even wonky, but it addresses a key issue in the charter-school world, namely how to improve the research into and evaluation of this new universe of schools...

Today marks release of the final “Common Core” standards–symbolically occurring in a state capital (Atlanta) rather than Washington, D.C...

We do know why these schools are failing. It's because they're not doing the things that cause schools to succeed...

As states work to devise modern testing regimes, how much weight should they put on evaluating students consistently versus depth of analysis? Do you favor a particular assessment model? If so, why?

How do you feel about the government of China paying for American public schools to teach our kids Mandarin? And sending teachers from China to the U.S. to assist in this venture?

My feet aren't frozen, but as the march toward national or "common" academic standards trudges through deepening snow, they're getting chilly. . . .

On primary and secondary education, as on most topics, Mr. Obama stayed at 30,000 feet in his speech last night. . . .

Eight months into the Obama administration, the White House has been mute on its intentions regarding No Child Left Behind, George W. Bush's signature education accomplishment — and a statute that nearly everyone in America believes needs a makeover...

CHESTER FINN has spent most of his adult life studying and trying to improve America's education system... Last week we asked him why he thinks the system "needs a shakeup from top to bottom."

Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (March 5) about whether the federal share of education spending is likely to remain at 15 percent and whether the $1 billion bonus for reauthorizing ESEA this year is likely to be awarded. . . .

Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (Jan. 7) about whether randomized field trials in education should be abandoned, since they so rarely find that the treatments have any effects. . . .

Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (Nov. 24) about the effect of the stimulus package on education, a sector that has proven to be very good at job creation. . . .

The education-reform debate as we have known it for a generation is creaking to a halt. No new way of thinking has emerged to displace those that have preoccupied reformers for a quarter- century...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act contained more than $100 billion for education, including $40 billion to stabilize state education budgets and $5 billion in discretionary money for incentive grants...

Turning around bad schools is harder than turning around Chrysler, GM, or AIG — but our fearless new federal administration seems bent on doing this, too...

My feet aren't frozen, but as the march toward national or "common" academic standards trudges through deepening snow, they're getting chilly...

Good afternoon, and welcome to Education Week’s live chat on President Obama’s education plan...

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute appraises the current policy landscape and its main players, and outlines the ideal federal role in K-12 education...

Education is a top priority for manufacturers who need a skilled workforce to operate increasingly complex shop floor computers and equipment...

Passed by Congress in late 2001 and signed by President George W. Bush one year after his inauguration, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is the most ambitious federal education statute ever...

School districts are getting around certain requirements of the No Child Left Behind law by setting the bar measuring student progress low in the beginning....