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 ...

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

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

This! This is the most undiscussed point in modern education reform. Arnold is where, say, Freddie deBoer is, too: kids aren’t going to change much. I’ve had many similar conversations with fatigued ...

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

Vladimir Kogan, a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Ohio State University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a new report which finds that half of school board election races go ...

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

Rick Hess: Andy, in the Mahmoud v.Taylor case that was recently argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, the key issue is whether parents have a First Amendment right to opt their elementary school ...

In June 2019, Steven Wilson, then CEO of the high-performing Brooklyn charter school network Ascend, wrote a blog post entitled “The promise of intellectual joy.” After making the case for universal, ...

Angela R. Watson, a senior research fellow at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Watson’s recent research on how homeschooling has grown, and how ...