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

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

Former Tennessee chief’s retreat reflects deeper fight over K–12 culture wars among MAGA Republicans ...

Derrell Bradford, the president of 50CAN, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how states might react to the new tax credit ...

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Paul E. Peterson interviews Ester Fuchs, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science at Columbia University ...

In spring 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic caused school closures throughout the United States—a seismic disruption with immediate effects on enrollment. By fall 2020, early research found that K–12 public ...

If you’re looking for old-school values at the movies, you could do much worse than the Man of Steel reboot The new Superman is a solid, kid-friendly movie with healthy, old-school values. That wouldn ...

Four out of 10 private schools that participated in Milwaukee’s voucher program eventually closed. Of those, nearly nine out of 10 were founded after the program launched in 1990.

Pretty much the only good-news story in education through the first half of 2025 has been the “Southern Surge”—the impressive National Assessment of Educational Progress gains posted by Mississippi, ...