But many parents and educators have grown skeptical of standardized testing and the relevance of a student’s scores to their long-term success—especially tests given when children are still in ...

OpenAI is missing an opportunity to shepherd higher ed through the most disruptive innovation since the printing press ...

We see two roads forward for education choice. Down the well-travelled road, we see the potential “charter-ization” of ...

Joshua Goodman, an Associate Professor of Education and Economics at Boston University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Goodman’s latest research, which tracks how school enrollment has changed in ...

With 18 states enacting seven new educational choice programs and expanding 21 existing ones, 2021 has rightly been declared a “breakthrough year” for school choice. In the wake of all this progress, ...

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The high-school problem is nothing new. In one of his early writings, excerpted in the following pages, James S. Coleman, the brilliant sociologist who later wrote the famous report on the equality of ...

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 ...

Pandemic Learning Loss and Rising Absenteeism. Although students’ academic performance has begun to recover from the sharp decline sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic, it remains well below 2019 levels.

The effect of start times on student achievement. What time should the school day begin? School start times vary considerably, both across the nation and within individual communities, with some ...

This article appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of Education Next.Suggested citation format: Willingham, D.T., and Daniel, D.B. (2021). Making Education Research Relevant: How researchers can give ...

Put to the Test. Our data come from approximately 7 million U.S. student observations, as well as 4.5 million international student observations, on math and reading assessments in five ...