They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” George Washington was more specific about the role of ...

Martin R. West, the editor-in-chief of Education Next, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the recent release of the National ...

John Dewey believed the preservation of democracy depended on education. Teachers can show students why our 250-year-old ...

Earlier this month, Yale University’s ten-member Committee on Trust in Higher Education issued a bracing, 58-page report on what’s driven plunging trust in higher ed. The committee was formed a year ...

Samuel Abrams, professor of politics at Sarah Lawrence College, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Abrams recent op-ed in Real Clear Politics, “The Real Crisis in Higher Education Isn’t Just Ideology, ...

Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, held its final commencement ceremony in 2025 before closing permanently due to financial challenges and declining enrollment. The college had been in operation ...

FAFSA reform was Senator Lamar Alexander’s final legislative bow. ED did as little as possible to honor it, then everything ...

Presumptive socialist mayor Janeese Lewis George could cater to unions itching to end teacher merit pay in the District.

American educators have returned to the notion that shared background knowledge is essential to reading instruction, ending a decades-long lost cause that insisted reading skills and levels were the ...

The model of special education known as inclusion, or mainstreaming, has become more prevalent over the past 10 years, and today, more than 60 percent of all students with disabilities (SWDs) spend 80 ...

Teenagers are not known for their coolheaded decision-making, yet they face hundreds of choices with significant long-term consequences. In school, they must decide which courses to take, how much ...

The practice of grading student work has mostly been an afterthought in teacher training and professional development. Grading remains idiosyncratic in most places—largely dependent on rubrics devised ...