Paul E. Peterson interviews Ester Fuchs, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science at Columbia ...

Goodman, J., and Francis, A. (2025). “ School Enrollment Shifts Five Years After the Pandemic: Public education sees ...

Large audiences flock to their content, suggesting a hunger for knowledge that schools need to be able to satisfy ...

The trial of John T. Scopes was an irresistible spectacle that pitted evolution against religion, with public schools as the ...

Over-regulation and under-regulation of school choice are two sides of the same bad coin ...

Thankfully, the brave advocates and policymakers who fought for these consumer protections during the 20th century didn’t have the leaders of the modern education choice movement whispering in their ...

The new Superman is a solid, kid-friendly movie with healthy, old-school values. That wouldn’t seem to merit comment, except that the Very Online right has bizarrely attacked this movie as “woke.” As ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Robert Maranto, the 21st Century Chair in Leadership in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas ...

Last year, Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act, supplanting No Child Left Behind and placing responsibility for public school improvement squarely upon each of the 50 states. With the ...

This article appeared in the Summer 2012 issue of Education Next. Suggested citation format: Edwards, F. (2012). Do Schools Begin Too Early? The effect of start times on student achievement. Education ...

Hero and villain of school policy researchThis article is part of a new Education Next series commemorating the 50th anniversary of James S. Coleman’s groundbreaking report, “Equality of Educational ...

More than 40 states plan to assess student performance with new tests tied to the Common Core State Standards. In summer 2013, results from Common Core–aligned tests in New York showed a steep decline ...