The Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) did not just cut the Institute of Education Sciences ...

A generation ago, state leaders collaborated to fix a K–12 nation at risk. Universities today need the same gubernatorial ...

The earn-and-learn expansion of federal Pell Grant eligibility offers policymakers an opportunity to leverage our most ...

Samuel Abrams, professor of politics at Sarah Lawrence College, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Abrams recent op-ed in Real ...

At last week’s ASU+GSV conference in San Diego, I was asked to try to decipher the state of education politics alongside my ...

Peterson to discuss Ney’s recent Substack post, “How the Wealthy Game Disability Laws for Ivy League Gains.” Vol. 26, No. 1 ...

The tide has turned on reading instruction. Nearly all states have passed “science of reading” laws, and most researchers and educators now agree students need to learn letters and sounds explicitly ...

Earlier this month, Yale University’s ten-member Committee on Trust in Higher Education issued a bracing, 58-page report on what’s driven plunging trust in higher ed. The committee was formed a year ...

Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, held its final commencement ceremony in 2025 before closing permanently due to financial challenges and declining enrollment. The college had been in operation ...

While high school GPAs have been gliding upwards for years, college admissions officers have relied on Advanced Placement (AP) exams as a more stable, rigorous measure of college readiness. That ...

In his recent Education Next article, Paul Peterson claims that Advanced Placement (AP) Exams are being “dumbed down.” He even goes so far as to state that College Board has “admitted” the exam ...