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 ...
Scaling choice in the Sunshine State is found to be at least 11 times more cost effective in improving public school student performance than simply spending more Nearly 15 years ago, I stepped into a ...
Steven Wilson, a Senior Fellow at the Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Nikole Hannah-Jones’ recent essay, in which she wrestles with her decision to send ...
Assessing the inequality of access to instructional time across the United States At the same time, however, a growing number of districts have shifted schedules in the opposite direction to address ...
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 ...
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 than four decades after the first model preschool interventions, there is an emerging consensus that high-quality early-childhood education can improve a child’s economic and social outcomes over ...
Racial segregation in U.S. schools has been illegal since the 1950s, but school enrollments remain stubbornly separate. About 70 percent of all Black students attend schools where more than half of ...
A Nation at Risk was an historic document—for its time. Now we know that while its findings were dead on, its reform agenda relied too much on the existing system Illustration by Craig Frazier. With ...
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 ...
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 ...
Paul E. Peterson interviews Steven F. Wilson, Senior Fellow at the Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research ...
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