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 ...

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 unabridged version of this article is available here. American 15-year-olds continue to perform no better than at the industrial-world average in reading and science, and below that in mathematics.

More families are seeking one-on-one help for their kids. What does that tell us about 21st-century education? On a hot and humid July afternoon, the Huntington Learning Center franchise in Brentwood, ...

Students from Arizona’s BASIS Flagstaff Charter School participate in the semifinal round of the National High School Ethics Bowl in North Carolina earlier this year. BASIS schools are distinguished ...

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 ...

Eminent ed school dean Smug Snidely sees the decline in take-home assignments as allowing students more time to be their authentic selves A few weeks back, Education Week reported on a new survey of ...

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Paul E. Peterson interviews Steven F. Wilson, Senior Fellow at the Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research ...

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

In the new book Reading Reconsidered: A Practical Guide to Rigorous Literacy Instruction, Doug Lemov, Colleen Driggs, and Erica Woolway offer clear guidance on how to teach students to be better ...