This will be terrible for students, families, and educators. It’s a devastating blow to American K–12 and higher education.

And pessimism about the potential for education reform, once limited to the political fringes, seems to be gaining mainstream ...

Anti-racist education doesn’t help address them. The truth is that “anti-racist” education isn’t interested in anything so ...

The nationwide crackdown on immigration is devastating student learning and defying a Supreme Court decision meant to protect it.

Derrell Bradford, the president of 50CAN, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the state of charter schools in 2025, and where ...

Joshua Goodman, an associate professor of education and of economics at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Goodman’s latest research ...

Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, held its final commencement ceremony in 2025 before closing permanently due to financial challenges and declining enrollment. The college had been in operation ...

Excitement over the new school model elicits memories of charters in their prime and a chance to reflect on what they got right and wrong Michael Q. McShane Teacher Apryl Shackelford reviews letter ...

So far, the Trump team’s confused and piecemeal efforts to “dismantle” the Department of Education (ED) amount to firing a bunch of people (including experts in key functions such as statistics and ...

What should we make of the Trump administration’s recent moves to “return education to the states”?

The current generation of American public-school students has grown up in the era of centralized, standardized data. Anyone curious about how local schools were doing could look at pass rates on ...