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Naming the Department of Education to honor the 36th President would be a permanent reminder of the tragic history of federal education policy.  

One point in the education reform debate has been almost entirely neglected: The only way to transform any system is to allow amateur, untrained visionaries to create new institutions within that system.

Answer: ask the parents, says one state representative.

Opponents claimed school choice provides no academic benefit, and only serves to “destroy” public education.  But a visit to Milwaukee reveals that public and private education is thriving under the city’s well-established school choice program.

Too many children with learning disabilities do not receive the education and services they need.

One British analyst asks: If Swedish social democrats and the new-Labour vanguard have spotted the evidence, why haven't the Tories?

More insights from our fearless ed school mole--straight from the gulag to you!

Arizona’s new foster voucher program could be a promising model that state policymakers could use to help more of the 500,000 foster children in America. But we may never learn how scholarships could help at-risk foster children if the ACLU and the People for the American Way succeed in their efforts to block the program before it begins.

Education is much more important than cars, and we have put up with “all-black Model T” schools for far too long. It’s high time we exposed schools to the dynamic forces of competition and found out what the educational equivalent of a BMW is.

The intellectual debate about school choice and the public school monopoly is now over.