In contrast, hardly anyone thinks ESSA’s accountability provisions are doing much to drive school improvement. This is in ...

The latest Nation’s Report Card dashed hopes that U.S. students might have finally closed pandemic learning gaps. The results ...

At the end of the day, reinvention is the work of solving problems, not dreaming up cool-sounding ideas or marketable ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Steven Wilson, author of The Lost Decade: Returning to the Fight for Better Schools in America ...

Trump administration officials announced on Tuesday evening that it is laying off 1,300 employees at the U.S. Department of ...

Michael Thomas Duffy is the President of the GO Tutor Corps, a non-profit organization that envisions an America where every child has the support of a tutor. He is also an adjunct professor at NYU’s ...

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Last Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education launched historic, unprecedented layoffs. While the specifics remained murky at week’s end, reports suggest that the cuts will eliminate close to half of ...

Reading aloud to students to evoke a love of reading was one of the hallmarks of the balanced literacy approach, which is now under legal scrutiny in a suit by parents. At the beginning of the 2023–24 ...

Jennifer Hochschild, the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government at Harvard University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Hochschild’s latest book, Race/Class Conflict and Urban Financial Threat.