To argue that schools are over-teaching phonics is to risk being seen as a naysayer—someone who believes the tide will ...

The Classical Learning Test is unique among summative assessments in that it focuses entirely on classical texts. The ...

“Sometimes I’m not sure you understand educational innovation,” he began. “We inhabit an aspirational praxis, one where we ...

Each week during the football season, ESPN’s Dan Graziano pens a column that reacts to the most popular hot takes of the moment, judging whether they’re overreactions or on-point. It’s a useful device ...

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Paul E. Peterson interviews Amber Northern, a senior advisor to the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education, ...

Despite polling showing progressives maintain a slight edge on education, public trust in the party has plummeted ...

American educators have returned to the notion that shared background knowledge is essential to reading instruction, ending a ...

Paola Sapienza, the J-P Conte Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how political opinions are represented on college campuses, with more students closer to ...

Teachers say focusing on students’ social and emotional wellbeing to address discipline has left classrooms harder to manage than ever Many schools began adopting restorative justice as a more ...

The science of reading is having a moment. Pundits are trumpeting the Southern Surge and celebrating academic outcomes in (gasp!) Mississippi and Louisiana. Outlets like the New York Times and ...

Many students lack the social connections that lead to better outcomes. Schools can help make them. Bruno V. Manno In today’s economy, what you know still matters, but who you know—and who knows ...