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The tidal wave of legal sports betting has easily infiltrated schools and swept up boys. There’s still time for commonsense ...

As states look to challenge Plyler v. Doe on educating children of unlawfully present parents, the court will need to ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Patrick J. Wolf, Distinguished Professor of Education Policy at the University of Arkansas ...

This is the Education Exchange with Paul Peterson. I am the director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at ...

Chicago’s civic avatars explained that CPS has a duty “not just to manage schools” but “to actively expand rights, fight for ...

David J. Deming sits down with EdNext’s Marty West to discuss his new study on the effects of a test-based accountability system in Texas on the Education Next Podcast. When Congress passed the No ...

As public budgets have grown tighter over the past decade, states and school districts have sought ways to control the growth of spending. One increasingly common strategy employed to rein in costs is ...

Once upon a time there was a thoughtful educator who raised some interesting questions about how children were traditionally taught to read and write, and proposed some innovative changes. But as she ...

Per-pupil spending can vary drastically between school districts, with affluent suburban districts often outspending their neighbors by significant margins. Such disparate school spending is ...

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 ...

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 ...