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Another slew of choice referendum defeats can be explained by an aversion to losing what’s in hand over gaining something new ...
As chancellor of D.C. Public Schools, Michelle Rhee led the reform efforts for the district’s teacher evaluation system.
Conley worries about all this, too, but can’t deny what science is teaching us: Our genetic code has a big impact on many ...
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 ...
Rather, this is about the reinvention of the structures and systems of higher education. OpenAI could have talked about solving Bloom’s two-sigma problem through the power of personalized, on-demand ...
Darrin DeChane is data analyst at the Sinquefield Center for Applied Economic Research at Saint Louis University.
Jim Blew, co-founder of the Defense of Freedom Institute, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a school choice provision in H.R. 1, the U.S. House reconciliation bill that has moved to the U.S. Senate, ...
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 private school choice. Down the other, the less-traveled road of Frost’s ...
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, ...
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 ...