In school-choice circles, Milton Friedman’s 1955 essay “ The Role of Government in Education ” is considered a (if not the) seminal text. It’s often credited with being the first to propose a ...

Large audiences flock to their content, suggesting a hunger for knowledge that schools need to be able to satisfy ...

Goodman, J., and Francis, A. (2025). “ School Enrollment Shifts Five Years After the Pandemic: Public education sees ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Ester Fuchs, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science at Columbia ...

The trial of John T. Scopes was an irresistible spectacle that pitted evolution against religion, with public schools as the ...

This article appeared in the Winter 2019 issue of Education Next. Suggested citation format: Bempechat, J. (2019). The Case for (Quality) Homework: Why it improves learning, and how parents can help.

Over-regulation and under-regulation of school choice are two sides of the same bad coin ...

The model of special education known as inclusion, or mainstreaming, has become more prevalent over the past 10 years, and today, more than 60 percent of all students with disabilities (SWDs) spend 80 ...

Natasha Boone, a 3rd-grade reading teacher, high fives a student at Titche Elementary School in Dallas in 2019. Boone was one of 400 teachers who participated in Dallas ISD’s successful ACE program to ...

Long-term enrollment trends by family incomeFor the past half century, roughly one in 10 U.S. families has chosen to enroll their children in private school. The reasons behind these decisions are as ...

Martin R. West is Academic Dean and the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and editor-in-chief of Education Next. He is also deputy director of ...

In his 2009 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama challenged Americans to “commit to at least one year or more of higher education or career training…. Every American,” he said, “will ...