Quality Counts 2010 is the 14th edition of "Education Week's" annual report card on American public education as viewed through the lens of the states' education policies and outcomes. As in the past, this year's edition is built on twin foundations: (1) the detailed data collection and analysis of the Editorial Projects in Education…

As "Education Week" marks its 25th anniversary, insiders and observers recall the paper's start and assess its role in fostering a national conversation on schools. "Education Week" is a newspaper which broke a national story on education policy. The independent weekly helped write the first draft of the history of an intense period of change in…

President Bush says that the No Child Left Behind Act is working, pointing to student-achievement results from a single subsection of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and tentative Reading First data. But the evidence available to support his claim is questionable. The data Mr. Bush cited are from just the "long-term…