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If you thought the reading wars were over, think again.

Last week, Charles Murray, author of the controversial 1994 book, The Bell Curve, opined on the pages of the Wall Street Journal on the topic of IQ and education.

Though fraught with tension, a performance-based compensation system makes good sense and creates all kinds of incentives to achieve. Such logic is lost on the education establishment, however.

Five can be a difficult birthday. Just ask the architects of President Bush’s landmark federal law, No Child Left Behind, which turned five on January 8th.

For education reformers, this year will bring a mix of the old and the new, as lawmakers bridge the gap between the lingering stalemates of 2006 and the policy innovations of 2007.

New survey results show American schools may use their academic freedom in order to fail in international rankings.

North Carolina’s public school problems may not be as local as you think.

Education funding already exceeds half a trillion dollars yet a broad array of groups wants more.

Time after time, our feel-good, faddish government education system blithely abandons proven teaching practices for the “pedagogy du jour.” When fads fail – and they invariably do – educators “discover” what others have known all along: namely, that learning requires hard work, lots of it.

North Carolina state officials wait until after the election to release student test scores but what is already out is not very promising.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education announced it would give public school districts plenty of leeway to create single-sex schools and classes.

Science fiction novelist William Gibson once said, “The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.” The same could be said of many innovative ideas in education reform.