In my brief time working as a charter school operations director, I was, in my early thirties, one of the oldest members of ...

District leaders may be starting to see there’s more to be gained from embracing school choice than trying to eliminate it ...

Peterson to discuss the future of Washington schools under presumptive mayor Janeese Lewis George. This is the Education ...

Children are no exception. Yes, they are capable of generosity, curiosity, and grace; they are also capable of cruelty, ...

Geoffrey Kocks, a research associate at Blueprint Labs and PhD student at MIT, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Kocks’ ...

When Teach For America launched 36 years ago, one of its pilot sites was Scotlandville High School in Baton Rouge, La., where ...

Detroit is a classic story of a once-thriving city that has lost its employment base, its upper and middle classes, and much of its hope for the future. The city has been on a long, slow decline for ...

As one of the top high school football prospects in the nation, quarterback Trent Seaborn could be a marketable commodity in the NIL landscape. But neither his name, image, nor likeness are likely to ...

Graduates of Teachers College, Columbia University, Class of 2022 celebrate the successful completion of degree requirements in the fields of education, health and psychology on Monday, May 23, 2022.

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 ...

In a Spring 2024 Education Next article, I argued that, despite the conventional wisdom that students were all in on artificial intelligence (AI), many in high school and college felt deeply anxious ...

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 ...