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

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

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 ...

But many parents and educators have grown skeptical of standardized testing and the relevance of a student’s scores to their long-term success—especially tests given when children are still in ...

The Politics of “Parents’ Rights” The scope and scale of the Great Unbundling have been fueled and shaped by a sharp rise in parents’ asserting their “rights” to directly control discrete elements of ...

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 ...

Teenagers are not known for their coolheaded decision-making, yet they face hundreds of choices with significant long-term consequences. In school, they must decide which courses to take, how much ...

This article appeared in the Fall 2023 issue of Education Next. Suggested citation format: D’Orio, W. (2023). To Fix Students’ Bad Behavior, Stop Punishing Them: Collaborative methods for handling ...