As chancellor of D.C. Public Schools, Michelle Rhee led the reform efforts for the district’s teacher evaluation system.

Another slew of choice referendum defeats can be explained by an aversion to losing what’s in hand over gaining something new ...

But many parents and educators have grown skeptical of standardized testing and the relevance of a student’s scores to their long-term success—especially tests given when children are still in ...

Joshua Goodman, an Associate Professor of Education and Economics at Boston University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Goodman’s latest research, which tracks how school enrollment has changed in ...

We see two roads forward for education choice. Down the well-travelled road, we see the potential “charter-ization” of ...

Jim Blew, co-founder of the Defense of Freedom Institute, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a school choice provision in H.R.

OpenAI is missing an opportunity to shepherd higher ed through the most disruptive innovation since the printing press ...

The Role of Teacher Turnover We focus on teacher departures from Dallas ISD to understand the effects of evaluation and compensation reform on the district’s workforce rather than looking at new ...

Improve the Quality, Preserve the Mission of Statewide Testing by Lynn Olson and Thomas Toch Lynn Olson and Thomas Toch Statewide standardized testing has played a central role in education policy for ...

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 ...

Reviewing the Research About Time in School We start with a wide-ranging search for studies that examine time during the traditional K–12 school day. Our review includes studies that reasonably ...

Importance of Education as an Issue Given the K–12 education system’s relatively lackluster performance in the eyes of the American public, you might imagine that education is among the most important ...