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

First and foremost, they should have named the correct problem. Everyone thinks the issue with AI is that just about every ...

Peterson, P.E. (2025). “ Covid Crimes: While suppression of discourse is dreadful, uninhibited despotism is worse .” ...

We need a post-BS civics. In 2025, public officials seem unhealthily consumed by social media celebrity while longstanding ...

This! This is the most undiscussed point in modern education reform. Arnold is where, say, Freddie deBoer is, too: kids ...

4. Reconsider election timing. Most school board elections are held off-cycle—for example, on the same day as the state ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Anna Egalite, Professor in the College of Education at North Carolina State University ...

I find it useful to think of IES’s traditional activities as falling into three broad buckets: statistical collections, ...

Do the paths to leadership and influence in America run directly through the campuses of the most exclusive colleges? That’s a common perception and the clear implication of two recent academic ...

The Role of Family Finances. We look at another state policy that shapes family decision-making: vouchers. Currently, 14 states and Washington, D.C. allow vouchers. To analyze this issue, we took a ...

In education circles, the presumption was that I’d share this outrage. I don’t, which has surprised a lot of people—probably because I’ve long argued that Washington has a vital role to play when it ...

States are the “laboratory” of democracy, opined Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. That laboratory swung into action when states introduced substantially different policies as Covid-19 swept ...