On Critical Race Theory in the Classroom, Idaho Makes More Sense Than Oklahoma

People hold up signs during a rally against “critical race theory” being taught in schools. The…

The Education Exchange: More Private School Competition Boosts Public School Student Test Scores, a New Study Finds

A Professor of Education and Social Policy and of Economics at the Institute for Policy Research…

The NAEP Sounded Red Alert for Students with Disabilities Before Covid-19

The National Assessment of Educational Progress recently released national science results for 2019, and the news…

Holding Back 3rd Graders Who Can’t Read Is Only Part of the Answer

Summer reading camps, like the one shown here at Moss Hill Elementary School in Kinston, North…

Andrew Yang Is Right. There Should be Very Little Regulation of Hasidic Education

Andrew Yang at Yeshiva Darchei Torah in New York City, April, 2021. New York mayoral candidate…

Performance Pay for Principals Pushed Less-Effective Ones to Leave, a New Study Shows

When North Carolina introduced a new principal performance-pay system based on school test-score growth in the…

Betsy DeVos and the Future of Education Reform

My job as Betsy DeVos’s assistant secretary for policy often came down to translating her reform…

The Education Exchange: Indiana Expands Eligibility for School Choice Scholarship Program so Family of Four with $145,000 Income Will Now Qualify

The State Representative for House District 91 in Indiana, Robert Behning, joins Paul E. Peterson to…

Put Students, Not Screens, at the Center of Post-Pandemic Learning

Philip II of Spain, seen here in a painting by Sofonisba Anguissola, ruled remotely, but received…

Move to Trash

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