I find it useful to think of IES’s traditional activities as falling into three broad buckets: statistical collections, ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Anna Egalite, Professor in the College of Education at North Carolina State University ...

Today, we discuss whether some materials don’t belong in school or whether such claims are a dubious justification for book ...

White House transcript of President Donald J. Trump’s remarks to Riverwood Middle School 8th grade commencement, June 2, 2025 ...

Paul DiPerna, the Vice President of Research and Innovation for EdChoice, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how public ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Angela R. Watson, a senior research fellow at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy ...

Education Next is a journal of opinion and research about education policy.

In recent years, the academic struggles of America’s boys have gained heightened visibility. The leading scholar on this count may be Richard Reeves, Brookings Institution scholar and the founding ...

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 ...

For decades, the Democrats were “the party of education,” ringing up double-digit leads in polls asking Americans which major party they trusted most to handle education. During parts of the Clinton ...

The year was 2014, and Doug Tuthill remembers taking a call from a top state lawmaker just after the Florida legislature had authorized its first education savings accounts—the type of state-funded ...