Students enter Our Lady of Hungary Catholic School in South Bend, Indiana, for the first day of school in 2011. The new ...

Last week, I shared what I thought a blue wave in November might mean for education, addressing the questions I hear most frequently from journalists and education policy insiders. The column provoked ...

Across classrooms, schools, and communities, American students are far more diverse than their teachers. Some 79 percent of U.S. teachers are white compared to 44 percent of students. As a result, ...

Assessing the inequality of access to instructional time across the United States At the same time, however, a growing number of districts have shifted schedules in the opposite direction to address ...

In 2024, Laurence Holt of the XQ Institute wrote in this publication about “The 5 Percent Problem,” a term that quickly became common parlance within the ed-tech zeitgeist (see “The 5 Percent Problem, ...

An unabridged version of this article is available here. American 15-year-olds continue to perform no better than at the industrial-world average in reading and science, and below that in mathematics.

Scaling choice in the Sunshine State is found to be at least 11 times more cost effective in improving public school student performance than simply spending more Nearly 15 years ago, I stepped into a ...

The pressures of accountability may encourage school personnel to doctor the results from high-stakes tests. Here’s how to stop them. Brian A. Jacob Steven D. Levitt The Costano School in East Palo ...

A Nation at Risk was an historic document—for its time. Now we know that while its findings were dead on, its reform agenda relied too much on the existing system Illustration by Craig Frazier. With ...

Eminent ed school dean Smug Snidely sees the decline in take-home assignments as allowing students more time to be their authentic selves A few weeks back, Education Week reported on a new survey of ...

Students from Arizona’s BASIS Flagstaff Charter School participate in the semifinal round of the National High School Ethics Bowl in North Carolina earlier this year. BASIS schools are distinguished ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Steven F. Wilson, Senior Fellow at the Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research ...