Michael Kirst, professor emeritus of education at Stanford University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a recently passed law that gives California’s governor more power over education in the state.

For the better part of a century, most public school teachers in the United States were paid according to rigid “step and lane” systems, with pay and tenure based on education and years of experience.

But parents may yet awaken to the harm that a device-driven culture of corner-cutting and distraction is visiting upon their ...

District leaders may be starting to see there’s more to be gained from embracing school choice than trying to eliminate it Anna J. Egalite The Browns are emblematic of the type of family that had sent ...

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 ...

Brandeis University, located outside Boston, has endured its share of financial hardship recently that has resulted in staff cuts, the resignation of its president, and the need to draw money from its ...

Most Americans—including public school teachers—believe schools should teach that America is a fundamentally good country. This may surprise critics who claim schools are eroding faith in America and ...

Reading aloud to students to evoke a love of reading was one of the hallmarks of the balanced literacy approach, which is now under legal scrutiny in a suit by parents. At the beginning of the 2023–24 ...

During the first half of the 20th century, enrollment at Catholic schools was on the rise as growing numbers of families sought an affordable education alternative. By 1960, about one in seven ...

Natasha Boone, a 3rd-grade reading teacher, high fives a student at Titche Elementary School in Dallas in 2019. Boone was one of 400 teachers who participated in Dallas ISD’s successful ACE program to ...

It can be difficult to keep track of all of the contemporary debates roiling the politics of education. On any given day, news headlines might be highlighting our sharp disagreements over how best to ...

If school finances are tight, should salaries be allowed to lag inflation, or should the number of employees be gradually reduced through attrition? Which is more important: holding salaries intact or ...