According to the National Survey of Children’s Health, parents report that about two in five teenagers ages 13 to 17 spend four or more hours on screens for recreation most weekdays. A CDC analysis ...

Rick, I sense a heartening trend in the “education reform” conversation: More and more folks are starting to ask the right ...

Without exception, the chatbots rejected the “college-for-all” mindset. None responded with an oversimplified “yes, you ...

Per-pupil spending can vary drastically between school districts, with affluent suburban districts often outspending their neighbors by significant margins. Such disparate school spending is ...

What time should the school day begin? School start times vary considerably, both across the nation and within individual communities, with some schools beginning earlier than 7:30 a.m. and others ...

Detroit is a classic story of a once-thriving city that has lost its employment base, its upper and middle classes, and much of its hope for the future. The city has been on a long, slow decline for ...

The staffing numbers intuitively match what observers have experienced as an expansion of federal laws and regulations—red tape—that required administrators to comply with. Are schools really spending ...

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 ...

Graduates of Teachers College, Columbia University, Class of 2022 celebrate the successful completion of degree requirements in the fields of education, health and psychology on Monday, May 23, 2022.

It is amazing how easy the Internet has made it to get books. The volumes emperors and scholars once scoured the earth to obtain are today available at the click of a button—and sometimes delivered to ...

On January 29, the National Assessment of Education Progress, NAEP, released results from its 2024 assessment. This latest installment of the self-styled “Nation’s Report Card” makes depressing ...

Benjamin Hansen is a research associate at IMPAQ International, LLC. Routinely around the country, children and parents gather around radios, news stations, and the internet waiting for one ...