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 ...

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

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

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 ...

With 18 states enacting seven new educational choice programs and expanding 21 existing ones, 2021 has rightly been declared a “ breakthrough year ” for school choice. In the wake of all this progress ...

Caitlin Peartree is the Vice President for Policy Research for The Winston Group, a strategic planning and survey research firm in Washington, DC.

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

In Neal Stephenson’s 1995 science fiction novel, The Diamond Age, readers meet Nell, a young girl who comes into possession of a highly advanced book, The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer. The book is ...

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 ...