This will be terrible for students, families, and educators. It’s a devastating blow to American K–12 and higher education.

And pessimism about the potential for education reform, once limited to the political fringes, seems to be gaining mainstream ...

Anti-racist education doesn’t help address them. The truth is that “anti-racist” education isn’t interested in anything so ...

The nationwide crackdown on immigration is devastating student learning and defying a Supreme Court decision meant to protect it.

Joshua Goodman, an associate professor of education and of economics at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Goodman’s latest research ...

So far, the Trump team’s confused and piecemeal efforts to “dismantle” the Department of Education (ED) amount to firing a bunch of people (including experts in key functions such as statistics and ...

In the first half of the 20th century, a rapidly industrializing American economy intensified the need for a more highly skilled workforce. White-collar workers were in demand, and blue-collar ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Joshua Goodman, assistant professor of education at Boston University ...

On average, black students typically score one standard deviation below white students on standardized tests–roughly the difference in performance between the average 4th grader and the average 8th ...

Teenagers are not known for their coolheaded decision-making, yet they face hundreds of choices with significant long-term consequences. In school, they must decide which courses to take, how much ...

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 ...

In his thought-provoking book, Brave New Words, Sal Khan discusses his early experimentation with generative AI, or GenAI, models and how, over time, they might change education. If AI is a new ...