This is the Education Exchange with Paul Peterson. I am the Director of Harvard University’s Program on Education Policy and ...

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

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 ...

More and more students take college classes while still in high school. That is boosting degree attainment but also raising doubts about rigor. Kelly Field Aniken Castaneda amassed 30 college credits ...

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 ...

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 ...

Congratulations to Oakland mayor Jerry Brown on his plan to open a military academy (see “A Few Good Schools,” Summer 2001). Chicago’s experience with military academies has been overwhelmingly ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Michael Hartney, associate professor at Boston College ...

The recent Vanderbilt report on the state of scholarship in the social sciences elicits a response that will live in infamy ...

The influence that attitudes about science can have on public health and the economy has been on broad display during the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite consensus in the scientific and medical communities ...

In his 2009 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama challenged Americans to “commit to at least one year or more of higher education or career training…. Every American,” he said, “will ...

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 ...