Ian V. Rowe, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Rowe’s latest research, ...

Rick, I sense a heartening trend in the “education reform” conversation: More and more folks are starting to ask the right ...

According to the National Survey of Children’s Health, parents report that about two in five teenagers ages 13 to 17 spend four or more hours on screens for recreation most weekdays. A CDC analysis ...

Try this experiment. At your next professional development session, conference, or perhaps on social media, mention the famous “30-million-word gap” study, which demonstrated that low-income children ...

More and more students take college classes while still in high school. That is boosting degree attainment but also raising doubts about rigor. Kelly Field Aniken Castaneda amassed 30 college credits ...

What time should the school day begin? School start times vary considerably, both across the nation and within individual communities, with some schools beginning earlier than 7:30 a.m. and others ...

Per-pupil spending can vary drastically between school districts, with affluent suburban districts often outspending their neighbors by significant margins. Such disparate school spending is ...

Congratulations to Oakland mayor Jerry Brown on his plan to open a military academy (see “A Few Good Schools,” Summer 2001). Chicago’s experience with military academies has been overwhelmingly ...

Harvard College freshmen Sophie Nguyen and Minh Nguyen look a lot like other first-year students at one of the most selective schools in the country: They work hard, achieve a lot, stay busy, and are ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Ian V. Rowe, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute ...

The recent Vanderbilt report on the state of scholarship in the social sciences elicits a response that will live in infamy ...