This will be terrible for students, families, and educators. It’s a devastating blow to American K–12 and higher education.

Derrell Bradford, the president of 50CAN, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the state of charter schools in 2025, and where ...

Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, held its final commencement ceremony in 2025 before closing permanently due to financial challenges and declining enrollment. The college had been in operation ...

Old school or not, though, gratitude is the lifeblood of healthy schools and civic institutions. Happily, the nation’s teachers seem to get this. While the performative jackassery of a few can foster ...

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Available research and data on homeschooling provide several key takeaways for policymakers.

Joseph Olchefske, an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins School of Education and the former superintendent of Seattle Public Schools, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss weighted student funding, and how ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Joseph Olchefske, former superintendent of Seattle Public Schools ...

So far, the Trump team’s confused and piecemeal efforts to “dismantle” the Department of Education (ED) amount to firing a ...

It can be difficult to keep track of all of the contemporary debates roiling the politics of education. On any given day, news headlines might be highlighting our sharp disagreements over how best to ...

In 2007, the case could be made that Rhode Island had, dollar for dollar, the worst-performing public education system in the United States. Despite per-pupil expenditures ranking in the top 10 ...