It is not the under-achieving students in urban centers who perpetuate the ongoing crisis in American education...The threats come from the mindless educational potentates who have captured control of the best public schools in the country...

The idea of a second campus on the East Coast was always a distraction. Why not take that same pot of gold—or, more exactly, a handful or two out of that pot—and start building a digital university for the ages...

Rumor has it that we will soon see an actual education plan from Mitt Romney, his team having been loath to wade into this debate during the primaries...

If presidents come to learn that they are also being held accountable for the nation’s educational performance, they will think more carefully about the consequences of their actions for students, not job holders...