A case that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear has troubling implications for discrimination against LGBTQ+ students in publicly funded school systems.

A case that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear has troubling implications for discrimination against LGBTQ+ students in publicly funded school systems.

A case that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear has troubling implications for discrimination against LGBTQ+ students in publicly funded school systems.

A case that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear has troubling implications for discrimination against LGBTQ+ students in publicly funded school systems.

A case that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear has troubling implications for discrimination against LGBTQ+ students in publicly funded school systems.

America’s story cannot be told honestly without religion. This July, Faithful Politics is spending the month with historians, scholars, journalists, and faith leaders to understand why.

A guide to the movement behind today's White House-sponsored Christian nationalist festival on the National Mall

Why we should be concerned about Sunday's White House-sponsored Christian nationalist event on the National Mall

The Trump administration is planning to host an all-day prayer festival on the National Mall this weekend. The event is raising questions about the separation of church and state. Visiting scholar at ...

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A recent Supreme Court case opened the door to providing LGBTQ+ youth with conversion therapy in public schools, even in states where it’s now statutorily banned.

The first year of Trump's second administration has marked a sharp departure from six decades of federal education policy. This policy brief examines how the administration has expanded executive auth...

A recent case puts religiously motivated speech ahead of the well-being of LGBTQ+ youth.

A recent case puts religiously motivated speech ahead of the well-being of LGBTQ+ youth.

A recent case puts religiously motivated speech ahead of the well-being of LGBTQ+ youth.

A recent case puts religiously motivated speech ahead of the well-being of LGBTQ+ youth.

A recent case puts religiously motivated speech ahead of the well-being of LGBTQ+ youth.

A recent case puts religiously motivated speech ahead of the well-being of LGBTQ+ youth.

Listen now to Kevin Welner’s ed-policy satire earworm.

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Critiques of public education have intensified, and while some reflect real needs for improvement, many are manufactured crises that portray schools as broadly failing. Centered on claims of underachi...

When California lawmakers enacted the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) in 2013, they took ambitious steps to advance educational equity. More than a decade later, and amid declining federal suppor...

This post is a paper I published in 1997 in American Journal of Educational Research. Here’s a link to a PDF of the original. It became the framing chapter in my 1997 book, How to Succeed In School Wi...

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New federal program is a devil’s bargain and must not override the will of our people.

The program is expected to expand private school choice in states like Colorado that don’t have voucher programs. Polis said not participating would mean leaving millions on the table.

In this post, Carol Burris reviews the latest challenge to separation of church and state. A religious school has applied for public funding as an online charter school. But that’s not all: t…

Two NEPC talks, on screen-time reduction and Christian nationalism, are now available online.

So-called “education preserves” would protect rural communities at risk of losing their public schools to school choice sprawl.

University of Wisconsin‑Madison Assistant Professor Christopher Saldaña interviews Julie Marsh and James Bridgeforth about the unprecedented challenges facing California school board members and how t...

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Progress toward educational, social, political, and economic equality has always faced backlash—sometimes violent, other times embedded in institutions. Amid economic uncertainty, politicians are agai...

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American public education, though historically rooted in Christian ideals, has long navigated tensions among denominational differences and, in modern times, secularism. The growing influence of Chris...

Wisconsin’s long-running private school voucher program has drawn decades of research interest, including a recent report from School Choice Wisconsin. The report claims voucher-receiving schools in R...