And pessimism about the potential for education reform, once limited to the political fringes, seems to be gaining mainstream ...

This will be terrible for students, families, and educators. It’s a devastating blow to American K–12 and higher education.

Anti-racist education doesn’t help address them. The truth is that “anti-racist” education isn’t interested in anything so ...

The nationwide crackdown on immigration is devastating student learning and defying a Supreme Court decision meant to protect it.

Joshua Goodman, an associate professor of education and of economics at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Goodman’s latest research ...

Derrell Bradford, the president of 50CAN, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the state of charter schools in 2025, and where ...

In one sentence, Froebel, father of the kindergarten, expressed the essence of early-childhood education. Children are not born knowing the difference between red and green, sweet and sour, rough and ...

So far, the Trump team’s confused and piecemeal efforts to “dismantle” the Department of Education (ED) amount to firing a bunch of people (including experts in key functions such as statistics and ...

In the first half of the 20th century, a rapidly industrializing American economy intensified the need for a more highly skilled workforce. White-collar workers were in demand, and blue-collar ...

What should we make of the Trump administration’s recent moves to “return education to the states”?