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 ...

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

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 ...

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We need a post-BS civics. In 2025, public officials seem unhealthily consumed by social media celebrity while longstanding civic norms are casually shattered. I don’t believe the problems are because ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...