Expensive institutions may need to reckon with OBBBA’s effort to rein in the nation’s $1.7 trillion in student loan debt ...

Mere knowledge” is getting sidelined at innovative models that embrace a vaporous notion of success, leaving students and ...

Peterson to discuss Advanced Placement exams and how they’ve transformed through the past three years. “The Great ...

The earn-and-learn expansion of federal Pell Grant eligibility offers policymakers an opportunity to leverage our most ...

Samuel Abrams, professor of politics at Sarah Lawrence College, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Abrams recent op-ed in Real ...

A generation ago, state leaders collaborated to fix a K–12 nation at risk. Universities today need the same gubernatorial ...

The tide has turned on reading instruction. Nearly all states have passed “science of reading” laws, and most researchers and educators now agree students need to learn letters and sounds explicitly ...

Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, held its final commencement ceremony in 2025 before closing permanently due to financial challenges and declining enrollment. The college had been in operation ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Carlos Carvalho, president of the University of Austin.

The proposals for overhauling the Institute of Education Sciences could address its operational inefficiencies but are unlikely to break through our ideological stalemate ...

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 ...

“The Widget Effect,” a widely read 2009 report from The New Teacher Project, surveyed the teacher evaluation systems in 14 large American school districts and concluded that status quo systems provide ...