As chancellor of D.C. Public Schools, Michelle Rhee led the reform efforts for the district’s teacher evaluation system.

Another slew of choice referendum defeats can be explained by an aversion to losing what’s in hand over gaining something new ...

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

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 ...

Jim Blew, co-founder of the Defense of Freedom Institute, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a school choice provision in H.R.

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

Importance of Education as an Issue Given the K–12 education system’s relatively lackluster performance in the eyes of the American public, you might imagine that education is among the most important ...

In Neal Stephenson’s 1995 science fiction novel, The Diamond Age, readers meet Nell, a young girl who comes into possession of a highly advanced book, The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer. The book is ...

The year was 2014, and Doug Tuthill remembers taking a call from a top state lawmaker just after the Florida legislature had authorized its first education savings accounts—the type of state-funded ...

A World of Possibilities by John Bailey John Bailey In his thought-provoking book, Brave New Words, Sal Khan discusses his early experimentation with generative AI, or GenAI, models and how, over time ...

The Role of Teacher Turnover We focus on teacher departures from Dallas ISD to understand the effects of evaluation and compensation reform on the district’s workforce rather than looking at new ...

Lessons from the Great RecessionState budgets are in trouble due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with tax revenues in freefall and steep increases in spending on unemployment insurance, social-welfare ...