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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Do the paths to leadership and influence in America run directly through the campuses of the most exclusive colleges? That’s a common perception and the clear implication of two recent academic ...

The Role of Family Finances. We look at another state policy that shapes family decision-making: vouchers. Currently, 14 states and Washington, D.C. allow vouchers. To analyze this issue, we took a ...

The Role of Teacher Turnover. We focus on teacher departures from Dallas ISD to understand the effects of evaluation and compensation reform on the district’s workforce rather than looking at new ...

In education circles, the presumption was that I’d share this outrage. I don’t, which has surprised a lot of people—probably because I’ve long argued that Washington has a vital role to play when it ...

States are the “laboratory” of democracy, opined Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. That laboratory swung into action when states introduced substantially different policies as Covid-19 swept ...

The debate over critical race theory in K–12 schools took center stage in 2021 during the Virginia gubernatorial election. Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin heavily criticized CRT during his ...