In school-choice circles, Milton Friedman’s 1955 essay “ The Role of Government in Education ” is considered a (if not the) ...

Ester Fuchs, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science at Columbia University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the New York City mayoral race, and what it could mean for ...

Over-regulation and under-regulation of school choice are two sides of the same bad coin ...

Goodman, J., and Francis, A. (2025). “ School Enrollment Shifts Five Years After the Pandemic: Public education sees ...

Large audiences flock to their content, suggesting a hunger for knowledge that schools need to be able to satisfy ...

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The trial of John T. Scopes was an irresistible spectacle that pitted evolution against religion, with public schools as the ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Robert Maranto, the 21st Century Chair in Leadership in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas ...

The new Superman is a solid, kid-friendly movie with healthy, old-school values. That wouldn’t seem to merit comment, except that the Very Online right has bizarrely attacked this movie as “woke.” As ...

In a Spring 2024 Education Next article, I argued that, despite the conventional wisdom that students were all in on artificial intelligence (AI), many in high school and college felt deeply anxious ...