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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Arne Duncan served as U.S. secretary of education under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2016, following a seven-year tenure as the superintendent of the Chicago public schools. During his time at ...

Any parent who has battled with a child over homework night after night has to wonder: Do those math worksheets and book reports really make a difference to a student’s long-term success? Or is ...

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 ...