Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (August 4) about why civil rights groups have been reluctant to embrace charter schools, even as a new Ed Next poll shows that support for charters is rising among minority parents...

The postmortem of the Sherrod affair will prove it to have been a net negative for the Obama administration...

In the midst of all the current tumult over health care, banking and taxation, it is useful to return for a moment to a persistent thorn in the sides of all colleges: the gender equity requirements for athletics that emerged under Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964...