In Franklin County, the average star rating was above 3.5. Some districts, like Upper Arlington and New Albany, boasted 5 stars.

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...

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...

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

I was recently walking around Austin, Texas. And a block from the new W Hotel, I passed Alpha School, housed in what looked like a tech office. Outside was a sign reading “Kids crush academics in two ...

Suspected cases of teacher misconduct have prompted parents in the Central Valley to demand that cameras be placed in self-contained special education classrooms.

Plus, reflections on 9/11, PISA pundit-palooza, and red versus blue states on the science of reading.

High school students report widespread screen distraction, AI misuse, and grading practices that make it easier to earn high marks without mastering the relevant material. A new Fordham survey suggest...

Brian Fitzpatrick, research manager at the Thomas B.

Prep for Prep is a leadership development program that offers promising students of color access to a private school education based in New York City.

The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.

Discussion has heated up about the federal voucher program and, specifically, whether blue states should opt in, and whether such opt-inning is inevitable.

Why that distinction matters

Also, Democrats debate whether school choice can sway swing voters (and which way), New York botches its Portrait of a Graduate, and Freddie misreads the charter school research.

Also, Democrats debate whether school choice can sway swing voters (and which way), New York botches its Portrait of a Graduate, and Freddie misreads the charter school research.

Mike Petrilli is solo on the podcast once again to revisit the college-for-all debate and consider whether the backlash has become an overcorrection.

The past two weeks have seen a growing ruckus over big changes in the Head Start regs that are reportedly nearing completion by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Office of Mana...

We went on a shopping trip to Teachers Pay Teachers and looked for classroom materials that appear to have been generated by AI. Here are the strange resources we found.

Prior studies suggest that even many students who struggle in high school benefit from a four-year college education.

Four-in-ten Americans say it is extremely or very important for children growing up in the U.S. to learn a language other than English.

Plus, the Classic Learning Test comes under fire, James Traub lauds Texas’s reading list, and the discipline debate returns.

One of the more promising developments of recent decades in education has been the pendulum swing away from the “college for all” mindset.

One of the more promising developments of recent decades in education has been the pendulum swing away from the “college for all” mindset.

Plus, new debates on accountability, career pathways, school start times, and more.

Do great teachers perform as well after switching schools? New research on a $20,000 transfer incentive program shows the answer is complicated—and prep matters.

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(August 2021) - Compensation of most US public school teachers is rigid and solely based on seniority. This paper studies the effects of a reform that gave school districts in Wisconsin full autonomy ...

A few weeks ago, my colleague Robert Pondiscio argued convincingly that the accountability policies of the No Child Left Behind era did not work as effectively as they could have because schools did n...