Rick, I sense a heartening trend in the “education reform” conversation: More and more folks are starting to ask the right ...

Without exception, the chatbots rejected the “college-for-all” mindset. None responded with an oversimplified “yes, you ...

According to the National Survey of Children’s Health, parents report that about two in five teenagers ages 13 to 17 spend four or more hours on screens for recreation most weekdays. A CDC analysis ...

More and more students take college classes while still in high school. That is boosting degree attainment but also raising doubts about rigor. Kelly Field Aniken Castaneda amassed 30 college credits ...

Per-pupil spending can vary drastically between school districts, with affluent suburban districts often outspending their neighbors by significant margins. Such disparate school spending is ...

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 ...

The staffing numbers intuitively match what observers have experienced as an expansion of federal laws and regulations—red tape—that required administrators to comply with. Are schools really spending ...

This article is part of a new Education Next series commemorating the 50th anniversary of James S. Coleman’s groundbreaking report, “Equality of Educational Opportunity.” The full series will appear ...

It is amazing how easy the Internet has made it to get books. The volumes emperors and scholars once scoured the earth to obtain are today available at the click of a button—and sometimes delivered to ...

Congratulations to Oakland mayor Jerry Brown on his plan to open a military academy (see “A Few Good Schools,” Summer 2001). Chicago’s experience with military academies has been overwhelmingly ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Michael Hartney, associate professor at Boston College ...

The recent Vanderbilt report on the state of scholarship in the social sciences elicits a response that will live in infamy ...