We need thoughtful commentary on tech’s implications for learning. John McWhorter’s shrug of an Atlantic essay was anything but.

Vladimir Kogan, a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Ohio State University, joins Paul E. Peterson to ...

Trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets. College presidents have kicked over a lot of buckets. I don’t recall hearing a ...

Porter-Magee, K. (2025). “ Helping Kids Slip the Surly Bonds of Leveled Reading: New book touts the critical role teachers ...

Most Americans—including public school teachers—believe schools should teach that America is a fundamentally good country.

On most policy questions, public opinion changes slowly, if at all. But when new issues arise, important shifts can occur before opinion sorts itself into settled patterns. And, on occasion, critical ...

A South Florida Autism Charter School 4th grader reacts to a story during a reading lesson last month. SFACS is one of 36 charter schools in Florida dedicated to serving students with special needs.

Paul E. Peterson interviews Joseph P. Viteritti, author of “Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education” ...

The model of special education known as inclusion, or mainstreaming, has become more prevalent over the past 10 years, and today, more than 60 percent of all students with disabilities (SWDs) spend 80 ...

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 ...

Recent policies intended to improve teacher quality have focused on the preparation that teachers receive before entering the classroom. A short-lived federal rule would have required every state to ...

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 ...