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 ...

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 ...

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

Jim Blew, co-founder of the Defense of Freedom Institute, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a school choice provision in H.R. 1, the U.S. House reconciliation bill that has moved to the U.S. Senate, ...

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

We need a post-BS civics. In 2025, public officials seem unhealthily consumed by social media celebrity while longstanding civic norms are casually shattered. I don’t believe the problems are because ...

Vladimir Kogan, a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Ohio State University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a new report which finds that half of school board election races go ...

Overseeing the vast majority of America’s 13,318 public school districts are elected groups of local community volunteers: school boards. These nonpartisan boards are tasked with setting policy, ...

Tyler Cowen: There’s a common impression—both for start-ups and for philanthropy—that doing much with K–12 education or preschool just hasn’t mattered that much or hasn’t succeeded that much. Do you ...

Months after DOGE gutted the federal Institute of Education Sciences (IES), Linda McMahon’s Department of Education is pivoting to the work of reforming it. That won’t be easy. DOGE reduced IES to ...

Anna J. Egalite, a Professor of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis at North Carolina State University and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how the ...

Rick Hess: Andy, in the Mahmoud v.Taylor case that was recently argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, the key issue is whether parents have a First Amendment right to opt their elementary school ...