Eight papers selected from a February 1997 conference at the Hoover Institution identify key failures in modern American education. They make a case for content-rich education and explicit teaching a
More than ever, parents want to know how their children are achieving and how their children's school ranks compared to others. And even though education experts and some testing experts may disagree,
Scholars from history, economics, political science, and psychology describe the present state of school accountability, how it evolved, how it succeeded and failed, and how it can be improved. They r