Steven Wilson, a Senior Fellow at Center on Reinventing Public Education, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss urban charter schools, and how a focus on culture rather than rigor is changing their ...
Two lawsuits immediately followed. The Darren Patterson Christian Academy in Buena Vista sued in June 2023, followed in ...
Donald Wittman, an emeritus professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, joins Paul ...
An experimental intervention in the 1980s raised certain test scores by two standard deviations. It wasn’t just tutoring, and it’s never been replicated, but it continues to inspire.
The most commonly discussed solution to mitigating K–12 teacher vacancies is spending more on K–12 education so that teachers receive more competitive pay and the profession becomes more attractive to ...
This is the seventh in a series on doing educational equity right. See the introductory post, as well as ones on school finance, student discipline, advanced education, school closures and homework.
Whatever AI means for the larger economy, I’ve seen enough over the past year and a half to grow leery about what it means for education. And the recent Google Gemini train wreck, engineered by the ...
Paul Peterson: We know that academic honesty matters, but why does it matter? What is the reason people care a lot about plagiarism? James Hankins: The research university exists inside an ethical ...
Educators and researchers have been fighting the reading wars for the last century, with battles see-sawing literacy instruction in American schools from phonics to whole language and, most recently, ...
In the years since the Covid-19 outbreak, the grades and test scores that anchor our education system have been relentlessly disrupted. As the pandemic swept the globe, American schools canceled ...