We need a post-BS civics. In 2025, public officials seem unhealthily consumed by social media celebrity while longstanding ...

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 ...

4. Reconsider election timing. Most school board elections are held off-cycle—for example, on the same day as the state primary, often in March of even-numbered years. Aligning school board elections ...

This! This is the most undiscussed point in modern education reform. Arnold is where, say, Freddie deBoer is, too: kids ...

I find it useful to think of IES’s traditional activities as falling into three broad buckets: statistical collections, ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Anna Egalite, Professor in the College of Education at North Carolina State University ...

Today, we discuss whether some materials don’t belong in school or whether such claims are a dubious justification for book ...

White House transcript of President Donald J. Trump’s remarks to Riverwood Middle School 8th grade commencement, June 2, 2025 ...

Paul DiPerna, the Vice President of Research and Innovation for EdChoice, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how public ...

In St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond, the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to decide whether states that allow secular charter schools must also allow charter schools that are ...

Natasha Boone, a 3rd-grade reading teacher, high fives a student at Titche Elementary School in Dallas in 2019. Boone was one of 400 teachers who participated in Dallas ISD’s successful ACE program to ...

Educators and policymakers agree that state standardized testing needs improvement. Student scores had been slipping for nearly a decade even before the Covid-19 school closures generated ...