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 ...

OpenAI is missing an opportunity to shepherd higher ed through the most disruptive innovation since the printing press ...

Joshua Goodman, an Associate Professor of Education and Economics at Boston University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Goodman’s latest research, which tracks how school enrollment has changed in ...

We see two roads forward for education choice. Down the well-travelled road, we see the potential “charter-ization” of ...

Our Health and Human Services secretary, who inveighs against “corrupt” medical journals and urges people to “do your own research,” recently issued his grand “Make America Healthy Again” ...

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Overseeing the vast majority of America’s 13,318 public school districts are elected groups of local community volunteers: school boards. These nonpartisan boards are tasked with setting policy, ...

Months after DOGE gutted the federal Institute of Education Sciences (IES), Linda McMahon’s Department of Education is pivoting to the work of reforming it. That won’t be easy. DOGE reduced IES to ...

Rick Hess: Andy, in the Mahmoud v.Taylor case that was recently argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, the key issue is whether parents have a First Amendment right to opt their elementary school ...

Tyler Cowen: There’s a common impression—both for start-ups and for philanthropy—that doing much with K–12 education or preschool just hasn’t mattered that much or hasn’t succeeded that much. Do you ...

White House transcript of President Donald J. Trump’s remarks to Riverwood Middle School 8th grade commencement, June 2, 2025. Good morning. You’re very lucky to have me here. Very lucky. I’m one ...

Anna J. Egalite, a Professor of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis at North Carolina State University and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how the ...