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?

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The debate over critical race theory in K–12 schools took center stage in 2021 during the Virginia gubernatorial election. Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin heavily criticized CRT during his ...

Nothing about Donald Trump is predictable except unpredictability, so it may be folly to speculate on what his return to the Oval Office would mean for American education. It also needs to be said up ...

Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, is an educator, author, and speaker. He has penned such influential books as Spinning Wheels, Cage-Busting ...

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Eleven studies have examined whether charter schools will have positive or negative indirect effects on students in district public schools.

In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Carson v. Makin that Maine violated the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment by excluding religious schools from a private-school-choice ...

The 14-year-old in the discipline school, let’s call him Kareem, was having a bad day. He’d gotten into a food fight, and he was in big trouble. He didn’t want to face the principal and whatever ...