In the early days of the Obama administration, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was the bipartisan superstar. At Duncan’s confirmation hearing, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) told him, “President-elect Obama has made several distinguished cabinet appointments, but in my view of it all, I think…

The Republican presidential candidates have spent the past year saying little about education. When they have addressed the issue, it has often been in terse calls to “turn off the lights” at the U.S. Department of Education. After a decade of runaway spending and regulations on education by both…

MICHIGAN EDUCATION OFFICIALS are championing a new regulation that would require every high school student's education to include a substantial "online experience" of some kind, with the assumption being that most would complete an online class. To fulfill this vague new mandate, district…

THIS SPRING will see a milestone in American public education: The nation's first federally supported voucher program will be launched in Washington, D.C. The program will offer school vouchers worth up to $7,500 to about 2,000 students in the District of Columbia schools. Thrilled at this…