Public schools are spending more per pupil than ever, but teachers are enduring serious salary cuts. New money is instead being used to hire more non-teachers and fund pension plans that penalize ...

In this replay episode of the Education Exchange, Robert Enlow, the President and CEO of EdChoice, joins Paul E. Peterson to ...

Daion L. Daniels, Director of Research for the Indiana Department of Education, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the ...

Educators and policymakers agree that state standardized testing needs improvement. Student scores had been slipping for nearly a decade even before the Covid-19 school closures generated ...

The debate over critical race theory in K–12 schools took center stage in 2021 during the Virginia gubernatorial election. Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin heavily criticized CRT during his ...

In his thought-provoking book, Brave New Words, Sal Khan discusses his early experimentation with generative AI, or GenAI, models and how, over time, they might change education. If AI is a new ...

Assessing the inequality of access to instructional time across the United States At the same time, however, a growing number of districts have shifted schedules in the opposite direction to address ...

It can be difficult to keep track of all of the contemporary debates roiling the politics of education. On any given day, news headlines might be highlighting our sharp disagreements over how best to ...

More families are seeking one-on-one help for their kids. What does that tell us about 21st-century education? On a hot and humid July afternoon, the Huntington Learning Center franchise in Brentwood, ...

There are no graduates of the Princeton International Academy Charter School, a Mandarin immersion school that was the brainchild of a rocket scientist, because it was never allowed to open. And ...

Driving across tracts of new-home development in El Paso, Texas, one can’t miss the signs of charter-school momentum. New charter-school facility projects dot the landscape. Harmony Public Schools, ...

Through the Boston Summer Youth Employment Program, about 10,000 young people receive job-readiness training and work in seasonal jobs each year. During the latter half of the 20th Century, the early ...