Another slew of choice referendum defeats can be explained by an aversion to losing what’s in hand over gaining something new ...

As chancellor of D.C. Public Schools, Michelle Rhee led the reform efforts for the district’s teacher evaluation system.

We see two roads forward for education choice. Down the well-travelled road, we see the potential “charter-ization” of ...

OpenAI is missing an opportunity to shepherd higher ed through the most disruptive innovation since the printing press ...

Jim Blew, co-founder of the Defense of Freedom Institute, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a school choice provision in H.R.

James Coleman's still-prescient insightsThe high-school problem is nothing new. In one of his early writings, excerpted in the following pages, James S. Coleman, the brilliant sociologist who later ...

In Neal Stephenson’s 1995 science fiction novel, The Diamond Age, readers meet Nell, a young girl who comes into possession of a highly advanced book, The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer. The book is ...

Importance of Education as an Issue Given the K–12 education system’s relatively lackluster performance in the eyes of the American public, you might imagine that education is among the most important ...

How researchers can give teachers more choicesIn this journal, as in others, scientific evidence is regularly invoked in defense of one classroom practice or another. And on occasion, scientific ...

Put to the Test Our data come from approximately 7 million U.S. student observations, as well as 4.5 million international student observations, on math and reading assessments in five ...

Park Ranger Jim Hollister leads a school group at Minute Man National Historical Park in Massachusetts. When my mother passed away at the ripe old age of 90, several years ago, my brothers and I had ...

Reviewing the Research About Time in School We start with a wide-ranging search for studies that examine time during the traditional K–12 school day. Our review includes studies that reasonably ...