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.

Paul E. Peterson interviews Joshua Goodman, Associate Professor of Education and Economics at Boston University ...

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

Conley worries about all this, too, but can’t deny what science is teaching us: Our genetic code has a big impact on many ...

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

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 ...

Lessons from the Great RecessionState budgets are in trouble due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with tax revenues in freefall and steep increases in spending on unemployment insurance, social-welfare ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...