Boston Public Schools (BPS) has a bureaucracy problem. The Bruce C. Bolling Municipal building—home to BPS’s central office—houses 587 staff. That makes one central administrator for every 78 students ...

Even if the department isn’t getting abolished, Trump has moved key programs to other agencies. The day after Trump signed his EO, the administration announced that it would start dismantling ED by ...

In contrast, hardly anyone thinks ESSA’s accountability provisions are doing much to drive school improvement. This is in ...

Michael Thomas Duffy is the President of the GO Tutor Corps, a non-profit organization that envisions an America where every ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Stephen Macedo, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics at the University Center for ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Steven Wilson, author of The Lost Decade: Returning to the Fight for Better Schools in America ...

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Trump administration officials announced on Tuesday evening that it is laying off 1,300 employees at the U.S. Department of Education. This is on top of nearly 600 people who had already taken early ...

Although folklore, the tale of George Washington admitting to cutting down a cherry tree is a demonstration of personal responsibility that has been devalued in some segments of American society. “Is ...