In school-choice circles, Milton Friedman’s 1955 essay “ The Role of Government in Education ” is considered a (if not the) ...

Goodman, J., and Francis, A. (2025). “ School Enrollment Shifts Five Years After the Pandemic: Public education sees ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Ester Fuchs, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science at Columbia ...

Large audiences flock to their content, suggesting a hunger for knowledge that schools need to be able to satisfy ...

The trial of John T. Scopes was an irresistible spectacle that pitted evolution against religion, with public schools as the ...

The practice that has come to be known as “tracking” began as a response to the influx of immigrant children into America’s schools during the early 20th century. To educate this newly diverse student ...

In the Beginning How a Small City in the Pacific Northwest Invented Magnet Schools by Alex Sergienko Every once in a while things work out. That’s what it seems like today, as I look back to 1968, ...

State leaders too often overlook a common practice that inhibits both efficiency and productivity: funding students who do not actually attend school in funded districts.

“What’s going on at Success Academy?” Lots of folks are asking that question, thanks to the eye-popping test scores achieved by students at Eva Moskowitz’s network of New York City charter schools.

Americans both care about their schools and want them to improve. Though adults give the nation’s public schools only mediocre grades—a plurality confer a “C”—they are willing to invest more money in ...

Superintendent Tom Boasberg visits a 3rd-grade class at Park Hill School in Denver, August 2011. In October 2018, when Tom Boasberg stepped down as superintendent of Denver Public Schools (DPS) after ...

The Purposes of Education Let’s get right to the heart of the matter: What do Americans think the aims and objectives of K–12 education ought to be? Broadly speaking, Americans would like schools to ...