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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 ...

In this replay episode of the Education Exchange, Robert Enlow, the President and CEO of EdChoice, joins Paul E. Peterson to ...

Elon Musk’s DOGE team has been hacking its way through the Department of Education and chopping off what it can. This has mostly meant targeting small, discretionary programs—since bigger programs ...

In his thought-provoking book, Brave New Words, Sal Khan discusses his early experimentation with generative AI, or GenAI, models and how, over time, they might change education. If AI is a new ...

There are no graduates of the Princeton International Academy Charter School, a Mandarin immersion school that was the brainchild of a rocket scientist, because it was never allowed to open. And ...

In Neal Stephenson’s 1995 science fiction novel, The Diamond Age, readers meet Nell, a young girl who comes into possession of a highly advanced book, The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer. The book is ...

Students start a new school year at Barwell Road Elementary School in Raleigh, N.C. They follow a year-round calendar, with a shorter summer vacation and longer breaks throughout the year. After ...

Has the achievement of U.S. students improved over the past half century? Have gaps between racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups widened or narrowed? These and similar questions provoke ...