The late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks liked to distinguish between optimism and hope. Optimism, he argued, was a passive virtue. Hope ...

Dunn, J. (2026). “ More First Amendment Folly in Colorado: Oral argument in case excluding Catholic schools from universal ...

The bell sounded to signal the start of the period and also seemed to summon the spirits of our 34th and 35th presidents, as ...

Northern, senior vice president for research at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute as a short-term adviser in charge of crafting a proposal to rebuild IES. The result of that months-long effort was ...

The high-school problem is nothing new. In one of his early writings, excerpted in the following pages, James S. Coleman, the brilliant sociologist who later wrote the famous report on the equality of ...

America is, rightly, having a reckoning on race. The nation’s history is scarred by its too-often horrific mistreatment of African Americans, from slavery, to Jim Crow, to discriminatory government ...

A 9th grader at Delta High School in rural Utah places his cellphone into the pocket of a phone holder before entering class in early 2024. Utah is one of almost two dozen states that have legislated ...

Reminiscent of scenes from the movie and musical Fame, which featured the High School of Music & Art and became a model for magnet schools, young musicians sing and play in a bathroom at La Guardia ...

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As public budgets have grown tighter over the past decade, states and school districts have sought ways to control the growth of spending. One increasingly common strategy employed to rein in costs is ...

In the mid-1960s, an acquaintance of mine was a young, timid teacher beginning her career in a virtually all-black high school on the South Side of Chicago. Even to this day, she recalls two events ...

The May-June issue of Harvard Magazine carries an article, “The Risks of Homeschooling,” promoting the argument of Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Bartholet that the U.S. should enact “a ...