Born in 1899 in a tiny mining town in northeastern Tennessee, Federal Judge Robert Love Taylor was named for his uncle, a Union-supporting Tennessee governor. His father also served as governor. Like ...

Students occupy part of the campus at Columbia University on April 19, a day after the New York Police Department arrested over 100 pro-Palestine protesters.

“ The Public Purposes of Private Education: a Civic Outcomes Meta-Analysis ,” co-written with M. Danish Shakeel, Alison Heap Johnson, Mattie A. Harris and Sarah R. Morris, is available now at ...

Beth Schueler, an Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy at the University of Virginia, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how tutoring could be used to lessen learning losses in the ...

Members of the New England Fisherman’s Stewardship Association protest a government agency rule that requires fishing ships like the Relentless (below) to pay to transport and house federal inspectors ...

Picture the scene: A new technology has been introduced that is unlike anything we’ve seen before. This technology creates a new means of sharing information that is both interesting and entertaining ...

For the past several months, I’ve been pumping out posts about “doing educational equity right.” Given that Eight is Enough, it’s time to wrap things up. Let’s conclude with a twist and look at three ...

Meta-analysis finds public schools no more effective—and likely less—at preparing students to become citizens ...

On May 16, I got into a Twitter argument with Campbell Brown of The 74, an education website. She released a video on Slate giving advice to the next president. The video begins: “Without question, to ...