Holt argued that when it comes to measuring the student-learning outcomes of various ed-tech programs, the results often only apply to the 5 percent of students who “used the program as intended. The ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than four decades after the first model preschool interventions, there is an emerging consensus that high-quality early-childhood education can improve a child’s economic and social outcomes over ...

Racial segregation in U.S. schools has been illegal since the 1950s, but school enrollments remain stubbornly separate. About 70 percent of all Black students attend schools where more than half of ...

Democrats are looking strong as November approaches. Five thoughts on what it could mean for schools.

Paul E. Peterson interviews Michael Kirst, professor emeritus of education at Stanford University ...

A footnoted version of this article is available here. Recently, two separate studies—one by Alan Ginsburg, a former director of Policy and Program Studies in the U.S. Department of Education, the ...

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 ...