The tidal wave of legal sports betting has easily infiltrated schools and swept up boys. There’s still time for commonsense ...

Smarick, A. (2026). “ The Country Lawyer’s Guide to Governance: As governor, education secretary, and senator, Lamar ...

As states look to challenge Plyler v. Doe on educating children of unlawfully present parents, the court will need to ...

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 ...

Once upon a time there was a thoughtful educator who raised some interesting questions about how children were traditionally taught to read and write, and proposed some innovative changes. But as she ...

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 ...

Patrick J. Wolf, a Distinguished Professor of Education Policy at the University of Arkansas, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Wolf’s paper, “The Nation’s Achievement Inequality Report Card: An ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Patrick J. Wolf, Distinguished Professor of Education Policy at the University of Arkansas ...

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 ...

An unabridged version of this article is available here. Middle school. The very words are enough to make many Americans shudder with memories of social anxiety, peer pressure, bad haircuts, and acne.

Ask any high school student in a well-heeled suburban community around the United States the best strategy for applying to college, and chances are you’ll hear something like this: apply to several ...

Driving across tracts of new-home development in El Paso, Texas, one can’t miss the signs of charter-school momentum. New charter-school facility projects dot the landscape. Harmony Public Schools, ...