Jim Blew, co-founder of the Defense of Freedom Institute, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a school choice provision in H.R.

We see two roads forward for education choice. Down the well-travelled road, we see the potential “charter-ization” of ...

First and foremost, they should have named the correct problem. Everyone thinks the issue with AI is that just about every ...

4. Reconsider election timing. Most school board elections are held off-cycle—for example, on the same day as the state ...

We need a post-BS civics. In 2025, public officials seem unhealthily consumed by social media celebrity while longstanding ...

This! This is the most undiscussed point in modern education reform. Arnold is where, say, Freddie deBoer is, too: kids ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Vladimir Kogan, a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Ohio State University.

Peterson, P.E. (2025). “ Covid Crimes: While suppression of discourse is dreadful, uninhibited despotism is worse .” ...

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

A big frustration with policy is that it can feel far removed from the real work of schooling. Why is that? What can we do about it? Such questions seem well worth digging into today, and I can’t ...