Over the last couple years, though, and especially since the Trump administration took office, it’s become clear that free ...

More dismal NAEP results call for a clear, decisive response from the field. What we get is self-serving gobbledygook ...

Hess: If you had one piece of advice for school leaders this fall, what would it be?

More dismal NAEP results call for a clear, decisive response from the field. What we get is self-serving gobbledygook ...

I mean, the appetites themselves are semi-consistent. The left likes DEI, the right doesn’t. The left wants to spend more than the right does. But how, when, and where these appetites shape policy is ...

The model of special education known as inclusion, or mainstreaming, has become more prevalent over the past 10 years, and today, more than 60 percent of all students with disabilities (SWDs) spend 80 ...

This article is part of a new Education Next series on the state of the American family. The full series will appear in our Spring 2015 issue to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1965 release of Daniel ...

In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Carson v. Makin that Maine violated the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment by excluding religious schools from a private-school-choice ...

On average, black students typically score one standard deviation below white students on standardized tests–roughly the difference in performance between the average 4th grader and the average 8th ...

The Texas Ten Percent Plan (TTP) provides students in the top 10 percent of their high-school class with automatic admission to any public university in the state, including the two flagship schools, ...

Americans both care about their schools and want them to improve. Though adults give the nation’s public schools only mediocre grades—a plurality confer a “C”—they are willing to invest more money in ...

American teachers unions are increasingly the target of measures, authored by friends and foes alike, intended to limit their power, or even eviscerate them. Looking at this scene, one would never ...