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 ...

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 ...

Our Health and Human Services secretary, who inveighs against “corrupt” medical journals and urges people to “do your own research,” recently issued his grand “Make America Healthy Again” ...

Months after DOGE gutted the federal Institute of Education Sciences (IES), Linda McMahon’s Department of Education is pivoting to the work of reforming it. That won’t be easy. DOGE reduced IES to ...

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Overseeing the vast majority of America’s 13,318 public school districts are elected groups of local community volunteers: school boards. These nonpartisan boards are tasked with setting policy, ...

Particularly riveting is the book’s cutting-edge discussion of Covid’s origins. Assembling their account from private emails and obscure publications, the authors describe Collins and Fauci’s ...