That path is taken all too often by schools plagued by chronic absenteeism, misbehavior, and grade inflation. Truth is, ed ...

Parents in one Pennsylvania town who heard that message quickly shut it down. But for Myers, this was just an omen of ...

Research shows that students benefit from digital math practice platforms. So why don’t more students use them?

Former Tennessee chief’s retreat reflects deeper fight over K–12 culture wars among MAGA Republicans ...

Derrell Bradford, the president of 50CAN, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how states might react to the new tax credit ...

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 ...

Nothing about Donald Trump is predictable except unpredictability, so it may be folly to speculate on what his return to the Oval Office would mean for American education. It also needs to be said up ...

Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, is an educator, author, and speaker. He has penned such influential books as Spinning Wheels, Cage-Busting ...

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Students in the United States spend much less time in school than do students in most other industrialized nations, and the school year has been essentially unchanged for more than a century. This is ...

The Purposes of Education Let’s get right to the heart of the matter: What do Americans think the aims and objectives of K–12 education ought to be? Broadly speaking, Americans would like schools to ...