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 ...

The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) adopted a detracking initiative in the 2014–15 school year, eliminating accelerated middle and high school math classes, including the option for ...

What time should the school day begin? School start times vary considerably, both across the nation and within individual communities, with some schools beginning earlier than 7:30 a.m. and others ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Jon Shields, professor of American politics at Claremont McKenna College ...

Populism, identity politics, school closures, and financial irresponsibility have taken their toll on public confidence in American education ...

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

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 ...