Honoring our independence against a backdrop of division, distrust, and flamboyant contempt for norms has got me thinking ...

Presumptive socialist mayor Janeese Lewis George could cater to unions itching to end teacher merit pay in the District.

FAFSA reform was Senator Lamar Alexander’s final legislative bow. ED did as little as possible to honor it, then everything ...

Martin R. West, the editor-in-chief of Education Next, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the recent release of the National ...

Three decades after the Friedmans predicted how universal school choice would reshape the education playing field, we now can ...

Public debate over gifted education tends to focus on fairness. Who gets to be called “gifted” and what sort of extras do ...

The tide has turned on reading instruction. Nearly all states have passed “science of reading” laws, and most researchers and educators now agree students need to learn letters and sounds explicitly ...

The Classic Learning Test is unique among summative assessments in that it focuses entirely on classical texts. The floodwaters raged. Infuriated by the ceaseless clamor from the crowded city of ...

American educators have returned to the notion that shared background knowledge is essential to reading instruction, ending a decades-long lost cause that insisted reading skills and levels were the ...

Scaling choice in the Sunshine State is found to be at least 11 times more cost effective in improving public school student performance than simply spending more Nearly 15 years ago, I stepped into a ...

Brandeis University, located outside Boston, has endured its share of financial hardship recently that has resulted in staff cuts, the resignation of its president, and the need to draw money from its ...

Standardized tests form the bedrock of school accountability systems and are a primary source of information for the public and policymakers alike. Over the past two decades, these tests also have ...