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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Most teachers aren’t particularly well trained in “putting out fires” (in this case, dealing with misbehavior once it’s started). After years of watching and teaching lessons, and then teaching people ...

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 ...

An Amazon box was on the porch the other day. (I get sent a lot of books. It’s a cool perk.) I pulled out five colorful, oversized paperbacks. Great Battles for Boys: The Korean War. Great Battles for ...

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