That path is taken all too often by schools plagued by chronic absenteeism, misbehavior, and grade inflation. Truth is, ed ...

Arnold, N. (2025). “ What Parents Really Want: High-quality, safe schools are worth the effort to get kids into them .” ...

Brian Stephens, the CEO of Caissa K12, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how public schools can make themselves more ...

Paul Carrese, a Professor in the School of Civic & Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Columbia University’s recent $200 million settlement ...

Research shows that students benefit from digital math practice platforms. So why don’t more students use them?

Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, is an educator, author, and speaker. He has penned such influential books as Spinning Wheels, Cage-Busting ...

Paul E. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at ...

Hero and villain of school policy researchThis article is part of a new Education Next series commemorating the 50th anniversary of James S. Coleman’s groundbreaking report, “Equality of Educational ...

Expanding opportunity for urban minority studentsThis article is part of a new Education Next series commemorating the 50th anniversary of James S. Coleman’s groundbreaking report, “Equality of ...

While U.S. schools struggled to reach even an average score on a key international exam for 15-year-olds in 2012, BASIS Tucson North, an economically modest, ethnically diverse charter school in ...

The Purposes of Education Let’s get right to the heart of the matter: What do Americans think the aims and objectives of K–12 education ought to be? Broadly speaking, Americans would like schools to ...