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Another slew of choice referendum defeats can be explained by an aversion to losing what’s in hand over gaining something new ...
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 ...
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 ...
Conley worries about all this, too, but can’t deny what science is teaching us: Our genetic code has a big impact on many ...
We see two roads forward for education choice. Down the well-travelled road, we see the potential “charter-ization” of ...
OpenAI is missing an opportunity to shepherd higher ed through the most disruptive innovation since the printing press ...
The Egalitarian Education of American Leaders After working at the White House, in Congress, and at the U.S. Department of Education, I concluded that too much of what occurs inside the Beltway is ...
The Role of Teacher Turnover We focus on teacher departures from Dallas ISD to understand the effects of evaluation and compensation reform on the district’s workforce rather than looking at new ...
In education circles, the presumption was that I’d share this outrage. I don’t, which has surprised a lot of people—probably because I’ve long argued that Washington has a vital role to play when it ...
In 2019, the average reading scores of 4th-grade students after adjusting for demographics are highest in the deep blue states, lowest in the deep red states, with purple states hovering in the middle ...
The debate over critical race theory in K–12 schools took center stage in 2021 during the Virginia gubernatorial election. Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin heavily criticized CRT during his ...
A World of Possibilities by John Bailey John Bailey In his thought-provoking book, Brave New Words, Sal Khan discusses his early experimentation with generative AI, or GenAI, models and how, over time ...