Kimberly Richey, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to talk about the latest federal guidance on school discipline and Tit...

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Grades can give the false impression that students are on track. A Learning Heroes survey suggests parents are beginning to question what schools tell them.

(October 2026) - This paper provides new causal evidence on the effects of grade retention on educational attainment, behavioral outcomes, and labor market performance by analyzing Texas's reading tes...

Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?

Abstract. School assignment policies are a key lever for expanding access to high-performing schools and promoting racial and socioeconomic integration. Fo

Ian Rowe, founder of Vertex Partnership Academies, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss Nikole Hannah-Jones’s recent reflections on her decision to send her daughter to a predominantly Bl...

Abstract. Attracting and retaining a high-quality teacher workforce is a central challenge for education policy, and higher teacher salaries are often proposed as a solution. The LEARNS Act increased ...

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

Mike Petrilli is back on the mic solo this week to weigh the case for and against banning AI in schools.

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

We examine how lower-performing public school teachers respond to more frequent formative evaluations. A 2011 reform in Chile required teachers rated "basic" (the second-lowest category) to be re-eval...

PISA results show learning continuing to slide across much of the world, while supermajorities of students report using AI chatbots for schoolwork.

Brian Fitzpatrick, research manager at the Thomas B.

PISA international test results show concerning global declines in student learning. U.S. students posted some of their lowest scores ever in math and reading, but other countries are doing worse.

Race-related content in the school curriculum is a subject of renewed political and policy attention. But what racial topics do Americans support students learn...

PISA international test results show concerning global declines in student learning. U.S. students posted some of their lowest scores ever in math and reading, but other countries are doing worse.

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Established CTE programs have delivered promising results. New research shows why adding career programs elsewhere may not produce the same payoff.

Morgan Polikoff

A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr…

More than 10,800 US schools now use solar, reaching 1 in 7 students – but fewer than 0.1% have battery storage systems nationwide.

The fast-growing private-school network is handing much of instruction over to artificial intelligence. Researchers say the science is far from settled

Ed. Dept.'s data-gathering agency is too unstable to adapt to changing needs, a new report claims.

Wealthy students with high standardized test scores make up the majority of students at the most selective universities, which also spend far more on student instruction than less selective institutio...