Another slew of choice referendum defeats can be explained by an aversion to losing what’s in hand over gaining something new ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Importance of Education as an Issue Given the K–12 education system’s relatively lackluster performance in the eyes of the American public, you might imagine that education is among the most important ...

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 ...

James Coleman's still-prescient insightsThe 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Regarding the phrases and jargon that are considered “woke,” our findings are similarly mixed (see Figure 2). More than 40 percent of students report their teachers have used the phrases “white ...