It’s easy to dismiss the Portrait of a Graduate phenomenon as a relatively innocuous exercise that will probably fade away ...

Scholars are at their best not when they’re handing down edicts from on high but when they’re asking hard questions, ...

For America’s 250th birthday, the greatest POTUS ever offers students the only book they’ll ever need about presidential ...

Aaron Garth Smith, the Director of Education Reform at the Reason Foundation, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Reason’s ...

Three years after winning millions in funding, it's fair to ask whether schools (and their communities) are better off ...

The disruptive technology of our age will change many things. What schools teach kids should not be one of them.

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

Public schools are spending more per pupil than ever, but teachers are enduring serious salary cuts. New money is instead being used to hire more non-teachers and fund pension plans that penalize ...

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 ...

In St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond, the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to decide whether states that allow secular charter schools must also allow charter schools that are ...

Educators and policymakers agree that state standardized testing needs improvement. Student scores had been slipping for nearly a decade even before the Covid-19 school closures generated ...

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 ...