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 ...

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

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 ...

Permitting Religious Charter Schools Would Strengthen Parental Choice By Nicole Stelle Garnett Nicole Stelle Garnett In 2012, I wrote an essay called “Are Charters Enough Choice? School Choice and 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 ...

A World of Possibilities by John Bailey John Bailey In his thought-provoking book, Brave New Words, Sal Khan discusses his early experimentation with generative AI, or GenAI, models and how, over time ...

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 ...

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, ...

The journalism of Emily Hanford brought widespread attention to a regressive shift in how reading is taught and has helped turn the tide back to evidence- based instruction.

Since its founding 34 years ago, Teach For America has prepared nearly 70,000 recent college graduates and career-changers to teach in high-poverty schools across the United States. The selective ...