States with large Hispanic populations and high numbers of college-educated adults are more likely to pass supportive charter school legislation, as are states with weak academic performance as measured by students’ SAT scores, find economists Christiana Stoddard of Montana State University and Sean Corcoran of New York University in the new issue of Education Next (spring 2008)...

Though she acknowledges they are not a 'silver bullet', Harvard economics professor Caroline Hoxby weighs in again in support of charter schools...

Edison Schools, a leading provider of achievement management solutions to public schools in the United States and the United Kingdom, today announced two key appointments designed to bolster business and academic performance for the education company...

U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says school vouchers are "an idea whose time has come..."