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OpenAI is missing an opportunity to shepherd higher ed through the most disruptive innovation since the printing press ...

Joshua Goodman, an Associate Professor of Education and Economics at Boston University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Goodman’s latest research, which tracks how school enrollment has changed in ...

Conley worries about all this, too, but can’t deny what science is teaching us: Our genetic code has a big impact on many ...

Jim Blew, co-founder of the Defense of Freedom Institute, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a school choice provision in H.R.

We see two roads forward for education choice. Down the well-travelled road, we see the potential “charter-ization” of ...

The high-school problem is nothing new. In one of his early writings, excerpted in the following pages, James S. Coleman, the brilliant sociologist who later wrote the famous report on the equality of ...

In Neal Stephenson’s 1995 science fiction novel, The Diamond Age, readers meet Nell, a young girl who comes into possession of a highly advanced book, The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer. The book is ...

Pandemic Learning Loss and Rising Absenteeism. Although students’ academic performance has begun to recover from the sharp decline sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic, it remains well below 2019 levels.

This article appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of Education Next.Suggested citation format: Willingham, D.T., and Daniel, D.B. (2021). Making Education Research Relevant: How researchers can give ...

Put to the Test. Our data come from approximately 7 million U.S. student observations, as well as 4.5 million international student observations, on math and reading assessments in five ...

Park Ranger Jim Hollister leads a school group at Minute Man National Historical Park in Massachusetts. When my mother passed away at the ripe old age of 90, several years ago, my brothers and I had ...