But many parents and educators have grown skeptical of standardized testing and the relevance of a student’s scores to their long-term success—especially tests given when children are still in ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Business + Editorial Office. Program on Education Policy and Governance Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone (617) 496-5488 Email Education_Next@hks.harvard.edu ...

With 18 states enacting seven new educational choice programs and expanding 21 existing ones, 2021 has rightly been declared a “breakthrough year” for school choice. In the wake of all this progress, ...

After successive school years disrupted by shutdowns, isolation, and mass experiments in remote teaching, educators returned to school in Fall 2021 to find that our classrooms and students had changed ...

Four years ago, in the shadow of Colorado’s Pike’s Peak, veteran Woodland Park High School chemistry teachers Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams stumbled onto an idea. Struggling to find the time to ...

Business + Editorial Office. Program on Education Policy and Governance Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone (617) 496-5488 Email Education_Next@hks.harvard.edu ...