In school-choice circles, Milton Friedman’s 1955 essay “ The Role of Government in Education ” is considered a (if not the) ...

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

Over-regulation and under-regulation of school choice are two sides of the same bad coin ...

Goodman, J., and Francis, A. (2025). “ School Enrollment Shifts Five Years After the Pandemic: Public education sees ...

Large audiences flock to their content, suggesting a hunger for knowledge that schools need to be able to satisfy ...

The trial of John T. Scopes was an irresistible spectacle that pitted evolution against religion, with public schools as the ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Robert Maranto, the 21st Century Chair in Leadership in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas ...

The new Superman is a solid, kid-friendly movie with healthy, old-school values. That wouldn’t seem to merit comment, except that the Very Online right has bizarrely attacked this movie as “woke.” As ...

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 ...

For decades, most school choice advocates promoted vouchers as a means-tested program for families that would not otherwise be able to afford private schools. Targeted vouchers were deemed equitable, ...

Three decades ago, the College Board “recentered” the SAT. Now, it’s “recalibrating” Advanced Placement. Though both adjustments in these enormously influential testing programs can be justified by ...

Reading books—ideally great ones, together as a class—should be common practice in American English and reading classrooms. Diverse research supports this assertion and helps explain why the ...