P. Shultz and Eric A. Hanushek's "Education Is the Key to a Healthy Economy" (op-ed, May 1) is well stated. However, we've been doing school reform for over 50 years.Our national dropout rate hasn't improved much. Student proficiency has not improved as...

Curiously for a Republican candidate with virtually no foreign policy record, Mr. Romney has made little effort to court the old-timers of Republican internationalism, from the former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft to the former secretaries...

P. Shultz warns that unless there’s a turnaround in the American education system, it will have a negative impact on the growth of the country’s GDP. It is only a matter of time until the decline of our educational system will have a negative impact on...

In the hour-long taping, the speakers discussed current economic issues as they might have been seen through the eyes of renowned historic figures Milton Friedman,

George P. Shultz And Eric A. Hanushek In addressing our current fiscal and economic woes, too often we neglect a key ingredient of our nation's economic future—the human capital produced by our K-12 school system. An improved education system would lead...

Taylor, the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, discussed the economy and whether government interventions had made the situation worse in...