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Fordham Institute’s Chester Finn and Michael Petrilli discussed how to improve K-12 education in America. This event was sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute.

David Osborne examines the charter school movement and offers his outlook for the future of public education in his book, Reinventing America’s Schools: Creating a 21st Century Education Sys…

John Podesta talked about bipartisanship in education reform. He said that the recent elections taught the importance of the political process and that passing reform-minded laws would not w…

Prior to his career in the United States Senate, Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) worked in four presidential administrations. He served in the Nixon administration from 1969-71 as an adv…

Senate Republican Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander spoke about the Republican agenda in the upcoming 112th Congress. He was followed by a panel including Weekly Standard Editor Bill Krist…

Panelists spoke about operational and administrative strategies to reduce costs in education. Among the topics they addressed were reductions in time spent at schools, teacher salaries, and …

William Ouchi talked about his book The Secret of TSL: The Revolutionary Discovery That Raises School Performance (Simon & Schuster; September 1, 2009). In his book he reports on his researc…

Marguerite Roza talked about the possibility of budget cuts catalyzing needed reforms in the public education system. These reforms might be dampened by the receipt of federal stimulus funds…

Mr. Petrilli introduced two reports from the Fordham Foundation on the status of states' educational standards and approaches to implementing national standards and tests for K-12 students. …

The panelists talked about the state of America’s public schools. They focused on changes that had been made in the nation’s educational system since the publishing of the U.S. Department of…

The Cato Institute held a forum on the future of the No Child Left Behind Act. Among the topics they addressed were the future of the legislation, funding by state and federal agencies, nati…

The panelists talked about state implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act followed by different perspectives of the impact of federal education policy at the state and local level. Top…

Secretary Paige and others testified about funding requirements of the Department of Education and several programs the administration had proposed. Among the issues they addressed were spec…

Educators issued a report on how American children were learning. Among the issues they addressed were trends in student achievement, math and science abilities, and various exemplary school…

Authors William Bennett and Chester Finn talked about their book, The Educated Child: A Parent’s Guide from Preschool through the Eighth Grade, published by Free Press. The book lists a numb…

Mr. Finn and other education leaders will release a report today called, “The State of State School Standards 2000,” which assesses state academic standards and compares them with each other…

Participants talked about teacher qualification and certification, focusing on the quality of higher education for teachers, the quality of teaching in public, private and charter schools, a…

Participants talked about how to increase the accountability of local school systems for their performance. They focused on the importance of feedback to the schools and the time to make the…

After dinner, participants on the panel answered written questions from the audience about topics discussed earlier in the day, especially setting standards and assessing students and teache…

In a conference entitled, “Common Ground: Where Can Liberals and Conservatives Agree?” participants discussed conservative and liberal approaches to school and government reform. After prepa…