In the past few years, 22 states and the District of Columbia have passed “bell-to-bell” laws, which prohibit students from ...

This is the Education Exchange with Paul Peterson. I am the director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at ...

Chicago’s civic avatars explained that CPS has a duty “not just to manage schools” but “to actively expand rights, fight for ...

David J. Deming sits down with EdNext’s Marty West to discuss his new study on the effects of a test-based accountability system in Texas on the Education Next Podcast. When Congress passed the No ...

As public budgets have grown tighter over the past decade, states and school districts have sought ways to control the growth of spending. One increasingly common strategy employed to rein in costs is ...

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 ...

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 ...

A culture of urgency, grounded in love, is essential, at “high-performing” and “underperforming” schools alike. And try to find a way to refill your cup. Rachel Skerritt Names of some of Boston Latin ...

Reading aloud to students to evoke a love of reading was one of the hallmarks of the balanced literacy approach, which is now under legal scrutiny in a suit by parents. At the beginning of the 2023–24 ...

For too long, teachers have been asking struggling readers to guess at words instead of helping them to learn the code Vol. 26, No. 1 Subscribe to the web content of Education Next and begin receiving ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Ben Scafidi, Professor at Kennesaw State University ...