America’s students continue to struggle in mathematics. The reasons are multifarious and sometimes elusive, but our recent ...

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Arnold, N. (2025). “ What Parents Really Want: High-quality, safe schools are worth the effort to get kids into them .” ...

Scott R. Levy, an Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Levy’s new ...

Brian Stephens, the CEO of Caissa K12, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how public schools can make themselves more ...

The school field trip has a long history in American public education. For decades, students have piled into yellow buses to visit a variety of cultural institutions, including art, natural history, ...

Neetu Arnold is a Paulson Policy Analyst at the Manhattan Institute, where she focuses on K–12 and higher education.

Paul E. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at ...

Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, is an educator, author, and speaker. He has penned such influential books as Spinning Wheels, Cage-Busting ...

The year was 2014, and Doug Tuthill remembers taking a call from a top state lawmaker just after the Florida legislature had authorized its first education savings accounts—the type of state-funded ...

This article appeared in the Spring 2015 issue of Education Next. Suggested citation format: Woessmann, L. (2015). An International Look at the Single-Parent Family: Family structure matters more for ...