Holt argued that when it comes to measuring the student-learning outcomes of various ed-tech programs, the results often only apply to the 5 percent of students who “used the program as intended. The ...

An unabridged version of this article is available here. American 15-year-olds continue to perform no better than at the industrial-world average in reading and science, and below that in mathematics.

Students from Arizona’s BASIS Flagstaff Charter School participate in the semifinal round of the National High School Ethics Bowl in North Carolina earlier this year. BASIS schools are distinguished ...

Eminent ed school dean Smug Snidely sees the decline in take-home assignments as allowing students more time to be their authentic selves A few weeks back, Education Week reported on a new survey of ...

Assessing the inequality of access to instructional time across the United States At the same time, however, a growing number of districts have shifted schedules in the opposite direction to address ...

A Nation at Risk was an historic document—for its time. Now we know that while its findings were dead on, its reform agenda relied too much on the existing system Illustration by Craig Frazier. With ...

More than four decades after the first model preschool interventions, there is an emerging consensus that high-quality early-childhood education can improve a child’s economic and social outcomes over ...

Racial segregation in U.S. schools has been illegal since the 1950s, but school enrollments remain stubbornly separate. About 70 percent of all Black students attend schools where more than half of ...

Democrats are looking strong as November approaches. Five thoughts on what it could mean for schools.

Paul E. Peterson interviews Michael Kirst, professor emeritus of education at Stanford University ...

University of Pennsylvania undergrad Zach Koung remembers the moment during a college class when his past caught up with him. “We were talking about school boards, and one of my classmates said, ‘Wait ...

This article is part of a new Education Next series commemorating the 50th anniversary of James S. Coleman’s groundbreaking report, “Equality of Educational Opportunity.” The full series will appear ...