I find it useful to think of IES’s traditional activities as falling into three broad buckets: statistical collections, ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Anna Egalite, Professor in the College of Education at North Carolina State University ...

Today, we discuss whether some materials don’t belong in school or whether such claims are a dubious justification for book ...

White House transcript of President Donald J. Trump’s remarks to Riverwood Middle School 8th grade commencement, June 2, 2025 ...

Paul DiPerna, the Vice President of Research and Innovation for EdChoice, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how public ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Angela R. Watson, a senior research fellow at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy ...

In recent years, the academic struggles of America’s boys have gained heightened visibility. The leading scholar on this count may be Richard Reeves, Brookings Institution scholar and the founding ...

Natasha Boone, a 3rd-grade reading teacher, high fives a student at Titche Elementary School in Dallas in 2019. Boone was one of 400 teachers who participated in Dallas ISD’s successful ACE program to ...

Educators and policymakers agree that state standardized testing needs improvement. Student scores had been slipping for nearly a decade even before the Covid-19 school closures generated ...

The debate over critical race theory in K–12 schools took center stage in 2021 during the Virginia gubernatorial election. Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin heavily criticized CRT during his ...

In his thought-provoking book, Brave New Words, Sal Khan discusses his early experimentation with generative AI, or GenAI, models and how, over time, they might change education. If AI is a new ...

Assessing the inequality of access to instructional time across the United States At the same time, however, a growing number of districts have shifted schedules in the opposite direction to address ...