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 ...

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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 ...

Joseph Olchefske, an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins School of Education and the former superintendent of Seattle Public Schools, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss weighted student funding, and how ...

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 ...

Mike Petrilli, the president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, recently launched a new Substack, SCHOOLED, that he hopes might help foster common ground on issues like accountability, charter ...

A whitepaper was published earlier this year by five researchers from five universities called “A Framework for Evaluating and Reforming School Vouchers.” It’s fair to ask critical questions about ...

To improve New York City’s schools, the mayor-elect should appeal to the grassroots enthusiasm that put him into office Zohran Mamdani campaigns for New York City mayor in the Bedford-Stuyvesant ...

Ayleen, a tutor with GO Tutor Corps, works on a math lesson with a small group of students at Fairmount Heights Middle School in Newark, New Jersey. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: The Next ...

Last week, New York City voters elected Zohran Mamdani as mayor. Much has been said about his ascension, but few have noted the incongruity that even this self-described “democratic socialist” argued ...