As Biden Targets “Overly Burdensome Occupational Licensing Requirements,” Some See Chance To Rethink Teacher Certification

Maine, like many states, has a complex flowchart for teacher certification, with some requirements that have…

Biden Backs Down on Civics Regulations as Senate Passes Amendment Against Teaching Children to “Hate America”

Ibram X. Kendi (left) and Nikole Hannah-Jones The Biden administration has cut language about “systemic racism”…

The Education Exchange: Walsh – In Six States, Institutions Where Nearly Every Teacher Candidate Who Takes the License Exam Flunks on First Try, a New Report Finds

The president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, Kate Walsh, joins Paul E. Peterson to…

Writing a Knowledge-Driven English Curriculum

A few years ago, we started to re-imagine reading instruction, but the thought of writing a…

Hong Kong Teachers Union Decides to Shut Down

The president of the Professional Teachers’ Union, Fung Wai Wah, called the decision to shut down…

Donald Kagan on a Liberal Education

News from Yale of the death, at age 89, of Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of…

Funding Research that Is Useful and Used

In 2022, the Institute of Education Sciences will celebrate its twentieth anniversary. The Institute’s mission is…

No Excuses, Revisited

Scripting the Moves: Culture and Control in a “No-Excuses” Charter School by Joanne W. Golann Princeton…

Doing nothing on climate change is not an option.

In the face of so much devastation being wrought by decades of inaction, we cannot sit…

Make Transparency the Pandemic’s Educational Legacy

Third-grade teacher Cara Denison manages students in person and remotely, simultaneously, at Rogers International School in…