Students enter Our Lady of Hungary Catholic School in South Bend, Indiana, for the first day of school in 2011. The new ...

Last week, I shared what I thought a blue wave in November might mean for education, addressing the questions I hear most frequently from journalists and education policy insiders. The column provoked ...

Steven Wilson, a Senior Fellow at the Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Nikole Hannah-Jones’ recent essay, in which she wrestles with her decision to send ...

The bucolic serenity of liberal arts college campuses like Brandeis belies a growing crisis of identity, relevance, and purpose in preparing young adults for participation in a rapidly changing ...

The recent Vanderbilt report on the state of scholarship in the social sciences elicits a response that will live in infamy Seemed like a good idea at the time. Earlier this summer, 10 accomplished ...

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 ...

Scaling choice in the Sunshine State is found to be at least 11 times more cost effective in improving public school student performance than simply spending more Nearly 15 years ago, I stepped into a ...

As of 2024, at least 20 states and countless districts had initiated “Portrait of a Graduate” reforms. In California alone, at least 100 districts have joined the trend. The idea is simple: High ...

Brandeis University, located outside Boston, has endured its share of financial hardship recently that has resulted in staff cuts, the resignation of its president, and the need to draw money from its ...

Natasha Boone, a 3rd-grade reading teacher, high fives a student at Titche Elementary School in Dallas in 2019. Boone was one of 400 teachers who participated in Dallas ISD’s successful ACE program to ...

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 ...