Tom Loveless: Education policy researcher.

Funding pauses, layoffs and looming budget cuts threaten a critical test

Even though EdReports is only a decade old, it has quickly become a powerful force in the educational publishing industry. Many schools rely on its reviews when they decide which reading programs to b...

Promising beginnings, disappointing outcomes.

Recently, DOGE has bragged about terminating 89 contracts worth a collective $881 million at the Institute for Education Sciences at the US Department of Education.

The nonpartisan arm of the Education Department supports research and shares data on student progress. It identifies what works and what doesn’t.

In 2023, IEA and the TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center conducted the eighth cycle of TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) at the fourth and eighth grades. The results o...