Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (June 8) about the belt-tightening that will hopefully take place if the $23 billion edujobs bill dies in Congress...

Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week about whether American kids need a longer school day, a longer school year, more time on task, or more customized learning experiences...

Each and every student has his or her own price point. The range can be narrowed by creating small, tracked classes, but unless the course is a tutorial, the problem of uneven price points can never be eliminated...

One study of 29 countries found that the level of competition among schools was directly tied to higher test scores in reading and math. . . .

Yesterday President Barack Obama delivered a pep talk to America's schoolchildren...

IF Congress creates a public option in health-care insurance, will that inevitably lead to a single-payer system, with the government everyone's insurer?...

THE stimulus package will more than double the fed eral money being spent on K-12 education for the next two years...

In Hoover’s newest web offering, Video Commentary, Paul Peterson, Hoover Institution senior fellow and member of Hoover’s Task Force on K–12 Education, comments on the education stimulus bill now pending in Congress...

Forty-seven states have adopted a pathway to teaching, alternative to the standard state certification otherwise required...

The latest international test results in math and science show America trailing the average international score...

For-profit management of public schools is still in its infancy, and many wonder whether it can have a positive effect on student learning...

Schools that admit students on the basis of race run afoul of the Constitution, wrote Chief Justice John Roberts in the recent Supreme Court case, Parents v. Seattle...

Judging by test-score results, Philadelphia schools have been enjoying a renaissance over the past four years...

While No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requires all students to be “proficient” in math and reading by 2014, the precedent-setting 2002 federal law also allows each state to determine its own level of proficiency…

Among the "talented tenth," those in the top 10 percent of test takers, reading scores have dropped four points since 1971 and math scores have not budged since first measured in 1978.

Learning is better fostered when schools draw boundaries that separate classroom life from the street-culture opiates.

Roughly 20 percent of students in big cities currently attend "failing" schools.

Americans barely reach the international literacy average set by advanced democracies.

As private sector unionism has waned, the NEA and AFT have become the most powerful labor combination in America.

Despite the efforts of the civil rights movement, public schools today remain just as segregated as they were in the 1950s.

The African American students who switched to private schools scored, on average, 3.3 national percentile ranking points higher

Low-income African American students scored higher in math and reading than those remaining in public schools.

Two seminal events transformed the educational institutions of the West—the invention of the Gutenberg printing press in 1455 and the Protestant Reformation in 1517.

To learn that black students in Shaker Heights outperform other African-Americans in Ohio tells us nothing about the quality of Shaker Heights schools...

At a conference held at Harvard’s Program on Education Policy and Governance, which I direct, a fine paper was presented this morning by the Munich University economist Ludger Woessmann on merit pay in 28 industrialized countries around the world...

Florida Governor Charlie Crist vetoed a merit pay plan passed by the state legislature...But is there a substantive case to be made for keeping the current system of recruiting and compensating teachers...?

President Kennedy had it right—rising tides lift all the boats. It can happen with electronic learning, too...

One always learns from readers’ blog comments, even if one disagrees...

Is a 20 plus year teacher 62 percent better than a teacher with ten years of experience—or do unions, in their negotiations with school districts, sell out the young teachers for their own purposes...?

[T]here is good news contained in the latest report from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) on how well Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Joel Klein are doing in New York City at teaching elementary and middle school students how to read...

When told they must spend more money, Democrats, seldom the party to shrink from such a task, thank the court for throwing them into a delectable briar patch. Republicans, resistant to raising the taxes necessary to fund higher expenditures statewide, concentrate any new expenditures on the poorest districts...

Recently Carlos Xabel Lastra-Anadon and I compared 2009 state proficiency standards with one another...

If a state mandates that every school reduce class sizes, will students learn more...

Inasmuch as federal dollars are now pouring into state and local coffers, we are poised for another leap forward in costs and personnel just as soon as the economy rebounds...

But rewarding laggards for promises, instead of achievers for their successes, rewards state and local officials for the very behavior one wishes to discourage...

In the report on state proficiency standards Carlos Xabel Lastra-Anadón and I released today, we show that state proficiency standards are not about to rise rapidly to world-class levels...

Education Next has spilt a lot of ink over three recent books on virtual education...From my not altogether disinterested angle, the books are complements, not competitors...

Time magazine touted “the School of One” as one of the 50 top innovations of 2009—the only educational innovation to be given that honor...

Can research influence policy? Most cynics think not, but when studies are of high quality, they can make a difference—at least in the long run...

Education Week reporter Debbie Viadero and blogger Andy Rotherham suggest that I, in Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning, have (along with Diane Ravitch) abandoned my support for vouchers and charters Such claims make for good story lines, but the reality is otherwise...

Thinking outside the box, [David] Steiner has persuaded the New York Board of Regents to consider giving Teach for America and similar organizations the ability to offer their own master’s degree programs, thereby depriving schools of education of their current monopoly...

Governor Crist has vetoed the merit pay bill as part of his plan to run as a third party candidate for the open Senate seat in Florida. Since he would surely be defeated in a Republican primary, his third-party strategy has become increasingly obvious for weeks.

From the land of the Green Mountain boys comes a virtual shot soon to be heard around the world.

Nathan Glazer talks with Education Next about E.D. Hirsch’s new book, The Making of Americans.

Have reformers of the past unwittingly created the public education problems of today? How will today's information revolution impact the future of education? We'll talk this hour with Paul E. Peterson, the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard University.

Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (March 5) about whether the federal share of education spending is likely to remain at 15 percent and whether the $1 billion bonus for reauthorizing ESEA this year is likely to be awarded. . . .

Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (Jan. 7) about whether randomized field trials in education should be abandoned, since they so rarely find that the treatments have any effects. . . .

Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (Nov. 24) about the effect of the stimulus package on education, a sector that has proven to be very good at job creation. . . .

Most state standards remain far below international level, with Tennessee, a Race to the Top Winner, at the very bottom...

Hoover Institution senior fellows and members of Hoover’s Task Force on K–12 Education Terry Moe and Paul Peterson comment on the controversy surrounding the likely termination of the Washington, D.C., voucher program...