Armitage’s op-ed is worth noting because it serves as a pitch-perfect illustration of what it means to be a culture warrior ...

Another slew of choice referendum defeats can be explained by an aversion to losing what’s in hand over gaining something new ...

As chancellor of D.C. Public Schools, Michelle Rhee led the reform efforts for the district’s teacher evaluation system.

But many parents and educators have grown skeptical of standardized testing and the relevance of a student’s scores to their long-term success—especially tests given when children are still in ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Joshua Goodman, Associate Professor of Education and Economics at Boston University ...

Conley worries about all this, too, but can’t deny what science is teaching us: Our genetic code has a big impact on many ...

We see two roads forward for education choice. Down the well-travelled road, we see the potential “charter-ization” of private school choice. Down the other, the less-traveled road of Frost’s ...

Jim Blew, co-founder of the Defense of Freedom Institute, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a school choice provision in H.R.

The Egalitarian Education of American Leaders After working at the White House, in Congress, and at the U.S. Department of Education, I concluded that too much of what occurs inside the Beltway is ...

Terry: Fascinating. What other changes are you picking up on? Steve: Whereas college used to be really the be all and end all of K–12 education—you know, the requisite, “That’s our goal. Get my child ...

Results After a new charter school opens nearby, enrollment at local Catholic schools falls by 2 percent, or about six students in the average size school, within two years (see Figure 2). The ...

In 2019, the average reading scores of 4th-grade students after adjusting for demographics are highest in the deep blue states, lowest in the deep red states, with purple states hovering in the middle ...