Vladimir Kogan, a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Ohio State University, joins Paul E. Peterson to ...

Porter-Magee, K. (2025). “ Helping Kids Slip the Surly Bonds of Leveled Reading: New book touts the critical role teachers ...

Most Americans—including public school teachers—believe schools should teach that America is a fundamentally good country.

On most policy questions, public opinion changes slowly, if at all. But when new issues arise, important shifts can occur before opinion sorts itself into settled patterns. And, on occasion, critical ...

A South Florida Autism Charter School 4th grader reacts to a story during a reading lesson last month. SFACS is one of 36 charter schools in Florida dedicated to serving students with special needs.

In 1924, Sidney Pressey, a professor from Ohio State University, invented a teaching machine. The mechanical device, about the size of a portable typewriter, allowed students to press one of four keys ...

Trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets. College presidents have kicked over a lot of buckets.

Paul E. Peterson interviews Joseph P. Viteritti, author of “Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education” ...

It can be difficult to keep track of all of the contemporary debates roiling the politics of education. On any given day, news headlines might be highlighting our sharp disagreements over how best to ...

After successive school years disrupted by shutdowns, isolation, and mass experiments in remote teaching, educators returned to school in Fall 2021 to find that our classrooms and students had changed ...

The 14-year-old in the discipline school, let’s call him Kareem, was having a bad day. He’d gotten into a food fight, and he was in big trouble. He didn’t want to face the principal and whatever ...

This article is part of a new Education Next series on the state of the American family. The full series will appear in our Spring 2015 issue to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1965 release of Daniel ...