During the 1980s, widespread dissatisfaction with America's schools gave rise to a powerful movement for educational change, and the nation's political institut

Why are America's public schools falling so short of the mark in educating the nation's children? Why are they organized in ineffective ways that fly in the fac

Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played ou

This work looks at why many of America's schools are failing and relates how parents, activists, and education reformers are joining together to fix a system th