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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 ...
In school-choice circles, Milton Friedman’s 1955 essay “ The Role of Government in Education ” is considered a (if not the) ...
Paul E. Peterson interviews Ester Fuchs, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science at Columbia ...
Elon Musk’s DOGE team has been hacking its way through the Department of Education and chopping off what it can. This has mostly meant targeting small, discretionary programs—since bigger programs ...
Educators and policymakers agree that state standardized testing needs improvement. Student scores had been slipping for nearly a decade even before the Covid-19 school closures generated ...
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 ...
The Purposes of Education Let’s get right to the heart of the matter: What do Americans think the aims and objectives of K–12 education ought to be? Broadly speaking, Americans would like schools to ...
For decades, most school choice advocates promoted vouchers as a means-tested program for families that would not otherwise be able to afford private schools. Targeted vouchers were deemed equitable, ...
Shaking Up Higher Education The University of Austin’s 2021 launch announcement declared that “we can’t wait for universities to fix themselves.” The response: start a new one. UATX president Pano ...
Reading books—ideally great ones, together as a class—should be common practice in American English and reading classrooms. Diverse research supports this assertion and helps explain why the ...