Almost half a century has passed since the economist Milton Friedman first proposed offering taxpayer-financed tuition vouchers to parents dissatisfied with local public schools. Ever since, ...

Your stress on teachers learning “smart politics [as] one of the arts and crafts of a working democracy” is extremely important. So is finding past examples where this occurred. I like your story of ...

'Each morning, wanting to believe in our schools, we take a leap of faith," filmmaker Davis Guggenheim says in Waiting for Superman. His much-acclaimed documentary then gives us every reason to doubt.

The Supreme Court’s decisions this month involving public education have stirred new debate about the future of public, secular education in this country — but such concerns are not new to advocates ...