Covid-era school closures exacerbated learning loss that had started years earlier. New results from the National Assessment ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews David Figlio, the Gordon Fyfe Professor of Economics and Education at the University of Rochester ...

How can I embrace cuts to ed spending when the savings are washed away by a torrent of intergenerational plunder?

Is there a shortage of special education teachers in America’s public schools? If so, why? And how can policymakers fix it? The first question sounds like an easy one. Yes, there is a shortage of ...

Four-day school weeks attract attention and debate. Traditional calendars packed with student-free weekdays deserve it, too. Anna J. Egalite The policy debate over time in school has focused on the ...

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 ...

“George Washington made America great once. I’ve already done it two times. That’s why people say Trump is the best president.” Frederick Hess White House transcript of President Donald J. Trump’s ...

Smarick, A. (2026). “ The Country Lawyer’s Guide to Governance: As governor, education secretary, and senator, Lamar Alexander left his mark on American Education .” Education Next, 26 (2), 28 May ...

A footnoted version of this article is available here. Recently, two separate studies—one by Alan Ginsburg, a former director of Policy and Program Studies in the U.S. Department of Education, the ...

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Reminiscent of scenes from the movie and musical Fame, which featured the High School of Music & Art and became a model for magnet schools, young musicians sing and play in a bathroom at La Guardia ...