In the past few years, 22 states and the District of Columbia have passed “bell-to-bell” laws, which prohibit students from ...

Peterson to discuss Graff’s paper, “Declining Public School Enrollment and the Rise of Universal Private School Choice ...

Mere knowledge” is getting sidelined at innovative models that embrace a vaporous notion of success, leaving students and ...

Expensive institutions may need to reckon with OBBBA’s effort to rein in the nation’s $1.7 trillion in student loan debt ...

John Moscatiello, founder of Marco Learning, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Advanced Placement exams and how they’ve ...

Reading aloud to students to evoke a love of reading was one of the hallmarks of the balanced literacy approach, which is now under legal scrutiny in a suit by parents. At the beginning of the 2023–24 ...

An experimental intervention in the 1980s raised certain test scores by two standard deviations. It wasn’t just tutoring, and it’s never been replicated, but it continues to inspire. Paul T. von ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act that passed in July includes a landmark provision offering dollar-for-dollar tax credits to individual taxpayers who donate to Scholarship Granting Organizations ...

Shahed Ananzeh and Gustavo Dos Santos, students at the Boston International Newcomers Academy, work together to prepare for an upcoming speech during a Boston Debate League tournament at Suffolk ...

Standardized tests form the bedrock of school accountability systems and are a primary source of information for the public and policymakers alike. Over the past two decades, these tests also have ...

This article is part of a new Education Next series commemorating the 50th anniversary of James S. Coleman’s groundbreaking report, “Equality of Educational Opportunity.” The full series will appear ...