Last year, the Trump administration took two major steps to limit the use of disparate impact analysis—the legal standard by which organizations can be held liable for unintentional discrimination.

While high school GPAs have been gliding upwards for years, college admissions officers have relied on Advanced Placement (AP ...

College Board employs evidence-based standards setting to ensure pass rates are commensurate with student learning ...

To argue that schools are over-teaching phonics is to risk being seen as a naysayer—someone who believes the tide will ...

“Sometimes I’m not sure you understand educational innovation,” he began. “We inhabit an aspirational praxis, one where we ...

Each week during the football season, ESPN’s Dan Graziano pens a column that reacts to the most popular hot takes of the moment, judging whether they’re overreactions or on-point. It’s a useful device ...

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Populism, identity politics, school closures, and financial irresponsibility have taken their toll on public confidence in American education ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Amber Northern, a senior advisor to the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education, ...

The practice that has come to be known as “tracking” began as a response to the influx of immigrant children into America’s schools during the early 20th century. To educate this newly diverse student ...

Teenagers are not known for their coolheaded decision-making, yet they face hundreds of choices with significant long-term consequences. In school, they must decide which courses to take, how much ...