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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

I hadn’t spoken to 22nd-Century Skills guru Paul Banksley for a few months. But with AI looming so large in the future of education, I wanted to get the celebrated innovator’s take on where things are ...

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

With the follow-up to A Search for Common Ground now written, I’m reminded how odd the education discourse has gotten ...

Public school teachers in Detroit attend a union meeting. Despite perceptions, teachers aren’t quitting in droves. Based on media accounts and the rhetoric of politicians, one might think teachers are ...

Detroit is a classic story of a once-thriving city that has lost its employment base, its upper and middle classes, and much of its hope for the future. The city has been on a long, slow decline for ...