This is the final article in a series on doing educational equity right. See the introductory post, as well as ones on school finance, student discipline, advanced education, school closures, homework ...

Rick Hess: On Monday, you mentioned that Marguerite Roza, Emily Oster, and Sean Reardon are doing good, serious work on ...

My Uber driver had on talk radio as I got into the car. They were talking about President Biden’s wonderful plan to forgive billions in student debt. “Boy, that’s exciting stuff, isn’t it?” I marveled ...

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 ...

Meanwhile, IES’s National Center for Education Statistics, or NCES, has other problems that slow down the release of its work. Officials at NCES argue that they simply don’t have enough staff to ...

Increasingly, school curriculums are getting swept away by a movement that is determined to teach math in a way that is antithetical to research and common sense. As a veteran teacher, I’ve been ...

Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, who died last week at age 82, was, for much of the 1990s, one of the most articulate and persistent legislative advocates for school choice.

Benjamin Riley is the founder of Cognitive Resonance, a new venture dedicated to improving understanding of human cognition and generative AI.

In 1924, Sidney Pressey, a professor from Ohio State University, invented a teaching machine. The mechanical device, about the size of a portable typewriter, allowed students to press one of four keys ...

My mind raced at the possibilities. What might the 22nd-century skills icon, TED talk celeb, former vacuum salesman, and founder of Tomorrows Are for Tomorrow be up to? There was a buzz on her end.

Regarding out-of-school-time, afterschool programs were the most commonly indicated option (32%), followed by academic summer camps (20%), online courses not offered by their school (18%), weekend ...

Corey DeAngelis, a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the phenomenon of political leaders who publicly oppose school choice programs, while ...