Public debate over gifted education tends to focus on fairness. Who gets to be called “gifted” and what sort of extras do ...

The celebrity dean argues that it’s “disrespectful” to limit student loans for educators or compromise ed schools’ bottom ...

Jacob D. Light, a Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Light’s latest research, which ...

In education circles, we pay a lot of attention to key U.S. Supreme Court decisions. But most education law plays out in ...

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

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

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

Four-day school weeks attract attention and debate. Traditional calendars packed with student-free weekdays deserve it, too.

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 ...

A recent study in Education Next evaluates the shift in the haves and have-nots of private education, highlighting the disturbing trend of private schools enrolling students predominantly from ...

Paul E. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at ...