District leaders may be starting to see there’s more to be gained from embracing school choice than trying to eliminate it ...

Children are no exception. Yes, they are capable of generosity, curiosity, and grace; they are also capable of cruelty, ...

Peterson to discuss the future of Washington schools under presumptive mayor Janeese Lewis George. This is the Education ...

There’s a lot of giddiness about the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit (FSTC), which will launch January 1, 2027. The new ...

When Teach For America launched 36 years ago, one of its pilot sites was Scotlandville High School in Baton Rouge, La., where ...

While declining enrollment in America’s traditional public schools is turning into a slow-moving crisis, participation in ...

Beyond the labels, there is a benefit to treating students’ abilities as qualities schools can serve, not conditions they ...

Other states facing enrollment-related financial pressure may have very different results if local school leade ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews R. Shep Melnick, the Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. Professor of American Politics at Boston College ...

I spoke recently with a teacher at an alternative public high school. His students had been kicked out of their neighborhood schools for fighting, truancy, and drug abuse, and his job was to remedy ...

Any parent who has battled with a child over homework night after night has to wonder: Do those math worksheets and book reports really make a difference to a student’s long-term success? Or is ...

She was unlike any other visitor to our school. Those who patted us on our heads and said some form of “Dear, you are doing such good work with these children.” These children: As though simply seeing ...