District leaders may be starting to see there’s more to be gained from embracing school choice than trying to eliminate it ...

Children are no exception. Yes, they are capable of generosity, curiosity, and grace; they are also capable of cruelty, ...

Peterson to discuss the future of Washington schools under presumptive mayor Janeese Lewis George. This is the Education ...

There’s a lot of giddiness about the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit (FSTC), which will launch January 1, 2027. The new ...

When Teach For America launched 36 years ago, one of its pilot sites was Scotlandville High School in Baton Rouge, La., where ...

While declining enrollment in America’s traditional public schools is turning into a slow-moving crisis, participation in ...

Beyond the labels, there is a benefit to treating students’ abilities as qualities schools can serve, not conditions they ...

Other states facing enrollment-related financial pressure may have very different results if local school leade ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews R. Shep Melnick, the Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. Professor of American Politics at Boston College ...

On December 10, 2015, as he signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) into law, President Barack Obama hailed the bill as a “Christmas miracle.” ESSA had sailed through the U.S. Senate, 85–12, and ...

Assessing the inequality of access to instructional time across the United States At the same time, however, a growing number of districts have shifted schedules in the opposite direction to address ...

For some high school students, founding and leading a nonprofit organization satisfies a desire to serve their communities, for others a desire to be noticed by college admissions officers. Passion ...