Students enter Our Lady of Hungary Catholic School in South Bend, Indiana, for the first day of school in 2011. The new ...

Last week, I shared what I thought a blue wave in November might mean for education, addressing the questions I hear most frequently from journalists and education policy insiders. The column provoked ...

Dan Weisberg, Chief Program and Policy Officer at the Wallace Foundation and former deputy chancellor of New York City Public Schools, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss joins Paul E. Peterson to ...

The bucolic serenity of liberal arts college campuses like Brandeis belies a growing crisis of identity, relevance, and purpose in preparing young adults for participation in a rapidly changing ...

An experimental intervention in the 1980s raised certain test scores by two standard deviations. It wasn’t just tutoring, and it’s never been replicated, but it continues to inspire. Paul T. von ...

What time should the school day begin? School start times vary considerably, both across the nation and within individual communities, with some schools beginning earlier than 7:30 a.m. and others ...

Across classrooms, schools, and communities, American students are far more diverse than their teachers. Some 79 percent of U.S. teachers are white compared to 44 percent of students. As a result, ...

The pressures of accountability may encourage school personnel to doctor the results from high-stakes tests. Here’s how to stop them. Brian A. Jacob Steven D. Levitt The Costano School in East Palo ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Dan Weisberg, Chief Program and Policy Officer at the Wallace Foundation ...

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Last week’s column on what the midterm elections could mean for education prompted a whole lot of reader mail ...

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 ...