But many parents and educators have grown skeptical of standardized testing and the relevance of a student’s scores to their long-term success—especially tests given when children are still in ...

Jim Blew, co-founder of the Defense of Freedom Institute, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a school choice provision in H.R.

We see two roads forward for education choice. Down the well-travelled road, we see the potential “charter-ization” of ...

Joshua Goodman, an Associate Professor of Education and Economics at Boston University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Goodman’s latest research, which tracks how school enrollment has changed in ...

With 18 states enacting seven new educational choice programs and expanding 21 existing ones, 2021 has rightly been declared a “breakthrough year” for school choice. In the wake of all this progress, ...

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OpenAI is missing an opportunity to shepherd higher ed through the most disruptive innovation since the printing press ...

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 ...

Pandemic Learning Loss and Rising Absenteeism. Although students’ academic performance has begun to recover from the sharp decline sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic, it remains well below 2019 levels.

For all the speculation about ChatGPT’s potential to upend K–12 writing instruction, there has been little investigation into the underlying assumption that the AI chatbot can produce writing that ...

Supply Shortfall. The work of special education teachers is hard. These teachers report higher workloads than others, especially early in their careers. As a result, some state-level analyses have ...