For 2021, We Need Real Strategies to Dismantle Racism in Schools

As educators, we’re taught to begin with the end in mind. To be successful, we need…

Pandemic Offers Opportunity to Reduce Standardized Testing

For the last twenty years, the world of public education has loved to debate the value…

An Exit Interview With Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos

Betsy DeVos’ tenure as the nation’s 11th secretary of education will come to an end in…

The Education Exchange: Reopening in the Shadow of Covid-19

A resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Nat Malkus, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss…

EdNext Podcast: How Remote Learning Changes Snow-Day Decisionmaking

An Associate Professor of Education and Economics at Boston University, Joshua Goodman, joins Education Next Editor-in-chief…

The Most Important Question a Teacher Can Ask Is ‘How Are the Children?’

On the sun-glazed African continent, the most storied warrior people, incomparably formidable and sagacious in war,…

The 2020 Snow Day is Here. It Must Include “Sleducation”

Pedestrians walk along North Street in Pittsfield, Mass, early Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, as a nor’easter…

The Top 10 Education Next Blog Posts of 2020

The themes that dominated our list of Top 20 Education Next Articles of 2020—the Covid-19 pandemic…

Here’s Why Oakland Parents Are Suing California

It might be the holidays, but we’re not slowing down our fight with our children’s futures…

Discussing White Privilege in an All-White Class is Uncomfortable. Do It Anyway.

With so many pressing education issues on our collective agenda, it is important that we don’t…