This will be terrible for students, families, and educators. It’s a devastating blow to American K–12 and higher education.

Derrell Bradford, the president of 50CAN, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the state of charter schools in 2025, and where ...

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 ...

Old school or not, though, gratitude is the lifeblood of healthy schools and civic institutions. Happily, the nation’s teachers seem to get this. While the performative jackassery of a few can foster ...

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In one sentence, Froebel, father of the kindergarten, expressed the essence of early-childhood education. Children are not born knowing the difference between red and green, sweet and sour, rough and ...

So far, the Trump team’s confused and piecemeal efforts to “dismantle” the Department of Education (ED) amount to firing a bunch of people (including experts in key functions such as statistics and ...

What should we make of the Trump administration’s recent moves to “return education to the states”?

Recent policies intended to improve teacher quality have focused on the preparation that teachers receive before entering the classroom. A short-lived federal rule would have required every state to ...

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 ...

What would you think if your child came home from school and reported that the language-arts lesson of the day included using twigs and leaves to spell words? The typical parent might react with ...

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 ...