Ike and JFK’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure

The ghosts of presidents 34 and 35 get a lesson in modern civics they didn’t expect

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Treasury Has Completely Botched the Launch of FSTC

Holdout states didn’t get all their questions answered in the agency’s long-awaited regs. Five governors have asked again.

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Beyond Play and Phones

What it really takes to improve teen mental health

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The Great Youth Sports Heist Comes for the East Potomac Golf Course

Trump’s push to transform an affordable public venue into a “World Class Championship Golf Course” shows how we’ve stolen sports from kids

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Why Educators Should Embrace the “Science of Math”

The research about how children understand numbers doesn’t always reach teachers

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AI, Messy Jobs, and the Future of Schooling

Cognitively demanding work that also requires dealing with people should endure the automation revolution

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Trust the School Choice Market, Not Its Regulators

In this election year, forces are arrayed to thwart or reverse the progress made toward universal choice

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Is Improving Schools from the Bottom Up the Key to Real Reform?

A new book reveals what happens when schools embrace “continuous improvement and design”

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Improving U.S. History and Civics Education for Students Begins with the States

The Nation’s Report Card can help by offering state-level achievement data

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The $42,000 Question

Kicking the tires on Jeff Yass’s proposal for New York City students

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Education Savings Accounts: Boon or Boondoggle?

Three experts debate the effectiveness and sustainability of ESA programs

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Federal School Choice Is Here. Is the Field Ready?

For choice champions, the new Federal Scholarship Tax Credit brings the happy challenge of implementation

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Blue November Mailbag: The Big Picture

Last week’s column on what the midterm elections could mean for education prompted a whole lot of reader mail

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Think Higher Education Has Clear Standards for Academic Freedom? Think Again.

Confusion reigns over what actions are and are not protected on campus

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The Solution Nikole Hannah-Jones Didn’t Take

In the journalist’s admission of mistakes in choosing her daughter’s schools, the charter option never comes up

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How Viral Education Policies Have Extended the Pandemic’s Impact

Some countries managed to avoid the worst of the global student achievement crisis. The rest of the world should learn from them.

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How Would a Blue Wave in the Midterms Impact Education?

Democrats are looking strong as November approaches. Five thoughts on what it could mean for schools.

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The Education Exchange: California Eyes a Big Change in School Governance

Paul E. Peterson interviews Michael Kirst, professor emeritus of education at Stanford University

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The Penalty Students Pay for Using AI

Teenagers are willingly automating cognition and learning less. Adults seem unwilling to stop them.

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In Search of Common Sense

With the follow-up to <em>A Search for Common Ground</em> now written, I’m reminded how odd the education discourse has gotten

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The Education Exchange: Can Microschoolers, Homeschoolers Receive Federal Tax Credit Scholarships?

Paul E. Peterson interviews Angela R. Watson, senior research fellow at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy

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What Massachusetts’s Portrait of a Learner Gets Right (and New York’s Doesn’t)

The Bay State’s realism has a better shot than the Empire State’s impressionism

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The Lasting Benefits of Tougher Tenure Rules

Evidence from Tennessee

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Schools of Distraction

A new report finds that high schools are overrun by screens and AI-enabled shortcuts

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The Education Exchange: The Little School Sector That Roared

Paul E. Peterson interviews Dan Hamlin, the dean of the College of Education at the University of Texas

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"This is an Effort to Make Head Start More Sustainable and Accessible"

Assistant secretary at HHS explains rationale behind program overhaul

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New Australian Law Restricts Social Media for Kids. Is It Working?

Stanford report looks at youth benchmarks after three months of aggressive countrywide regulations

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The Reinvention of Liberal Arts Colleges

To remain relevant amid evolving attitudes toward higher education, Brandeis University and institutions like it are redefining their purpose

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The Education Exchange: Houston Adopts Reforms to Raise Proficiency, Close Achievement Gaps

Paul E. Peterson interviews Mike Miles, superintendent of Houston Independent School District

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Public Schools’ Eye of Sauron

Surveillance of student speech is now reaching into off-campus email drafts as grounds for punishment

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