Former Tennessee chief’s retreat reflects deeper fight over K–12 culture wars among MAGA Republicans ...

Derrell Bradford, the president of 50CAN, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how states might react to the new tax credit ...

In school-choice circles, Milton Friedman’s 1955 essay “ The Role of Government in Education ” is considered a (if not the) ...

Over-regulation and under-regulation of school choice are two sides of the same bad coin ...

Jake Tapper: Madam Secretary, it’s been a wild few weeks since you were confirmed as President Ocasio-Cortez’s secretary of education. Secretary of Education Rachel Maddow: It sure has, Jake. I mean, ...

The debate over critical race theory in K–12 schools took center stage in 2021 during the Virginia gubernatorial election. Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin heavily criticized CRT during his ...

What time should the school day begin? School start times vary considerably, both across the nation and within individual communities, with some schools beginning earlier than 7:30 a.m. and others ...

This article appeared in the Winter 2019 issue of Education Next. Suggested citation format: Bempechat, J. (2019). The Case for (Quality) Homework: Why it improves learning, and how parents can help.

Last year, Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act, supplanting No Child Left Behind and placing responsibility for public school improvement squarely upon each of the 50 states. With the ...

Ester Fuchs, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science at Columbia University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the New York City mayoral race, and what it could mean for ...

Paul E. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at ...