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Behind a School Board Recall in San Francisco, a Diverse Coalition
Autumn Looijen and Siva Raj had no funding or political experience when the effort began to…
The Ripple Effect
Advocates for taxpayer-funded school-choice programs cite the potential of market competition to spur educational improvement and…
“The Choice Engine Is Revving While the Accountability Engine Is Stalling,” Says Troublemaker Checker Finn
Chester E. Finn Jr.—or, as I’ve always known him, Checker—has been a force in American education…
The Education Exchange: The Trouble With Critical Race Theory
A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, columnist for the Wall Street Journal, and author of…
Declining NAEP Scores Are Flashing Red Lights for the Covid Generation
Last week brought the latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress’s Long Term Trend…
“The Only Way We’ll Have Economic Development in Some Parts of the World Is to Improve the Schools”
Eric A. Hanushek Eric Hanushek, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a…
Nation’s Report Card to Shine Spotlight on Pandemic-Related Learning Loss
The full extent of Covid-19’s impact on student learning remains unknown, in part because the pandemic…
The Education Exchange: Detroit School Superintendent Nikolai Vitti on How He Changed Three Quarters of the District’s Principals
The Superintendent of Detroit Public Schools Community District, Dr. Nikolai Vitti, joins Paul E. Peterson to…
The Education Exchange: Detroit School Superintendent Nikolai Vitti on How He Changed Three Quarters of the District’s Principals
The Superintendent of Detroit Public Schools Community District, Dr. Nikolai Vitti, joins Paul E. Peterson to…