Parents in one Pennsylvania town who heard that message quickly shut it down. But for Myers, this was just an omen of ...

That path is taken all too often by schools plagued by chronic absenteeism, misbehavior, and grade inflation. Truth is, ed ...

Research shows that students benefit from digital math practice platforms. So why don’t more students use them?

Former Tennessee chief’s retreat reflects deeper fight over K–12 culture wars among MAGA Republicans ...

Derrell Bradford, the president of 50CAN, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how states might react to the new tax credit ...

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In school-choice circles, Milton Friedman’s 1955 essay “ The Role of Government in Education ” is considered a (if not the) ...

If you’re looking for old-school values at the movies, you could do much worse than the Man of Steel reboot The new Superman is a solid, kid-friendly movie with healthy, old-school values. That wouldn ...

Pretty much the only good-news story in education through the first half of 2025 has been the “Southern Surge”—the impressive National Assessment of Educational Progress gains posted by Mississippi, ...

Four out of 10 private schools that participated in Milwaukee’s voucher program eventually closed. Of those, nearly nine out of 10 were founded after the program launched in 1990.

Last month, I found myself unexpectedly drawn into a nearly three‑hour conversation between documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and podcaster Joe Rogan. In a world dominated by short-form TikToks and ...

Robert Maranto, the 21st Century Chair in Leadership in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the Free Inquiry Papers, a project which ...