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 .” ...

Parents in one Pennsylvania town who heard that message quickly shut it down. But for Myers, this was just an omen of ...

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 ...

This article appeared in the Spring 2016 issue of Education Next. Suggested citation format: Kane, T.J. (2016). Connecting to Practice: How we can put education research to work. Education Next, 16 (2 ...

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 ...

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The practice of grading student work has mostly been an afterthought in teacher training and professional development. Grading remains idiosyncratic in most places—largely dependent on rubrics devised ...

State and federal policymakers are increasingly talking about “competency-based learning” as the way of the future. In a competency-based system, students advance upon mastery. This model marks a ...