Whole shelves of edu-books promise, “If you just DO THIS, students will learn!” From growth mindset to inquiry-based learning, methods claiming to be the secret ingredient of successful schools have ...

Aiming to expose the “Conservative Industrial Complex’s War on Education,” a new book instead reveals the problems with education scholarship ...

Jim Blew, advisor to the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Coaltion, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss joins Paul E. Peterson to ...

As we continue to honor 250 years of American independence, the most recent Nation’s Report Card shows we must renew our ...

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Students enter Our Lady of Hungary Catholic School in South Bend, Indiana, for the first day of school in 2011. The new ...

In 2024, Laurence Holt of the XQ Institute wrote in this publication about “The 5 Percent Problem,” a term that quickly became common parlance within the ed-tech zeitgeist (see “The 5 Percent Problem, ...

The bucolic serenity of liberal arts college campuses like Brandeis belies a growing crisis of identity, relevance, and purpose in preparing young adults for participation in a rapidly changing ...

At last week’s ASU+GSV conference in San Diego, I was asked to try to decipher the state of education politics alongside my friends Andy Rotherham and Penny Schwinn. Penny moderated, asking great ...

The tide has turned on reading instruction. Nearly all states have passed “science of reading” laws, and most researchers and educators now agree students need to learn letters and sounds explicitly ...

Each week during the football season, ESPN’s Dan Graziano pens a column that reacts to the most popular hot takes of the moment, judging whether they’re overreactions or on-point. It’s a useful device ...

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 ...