Porter-Magee, K. (2025). “ Helping Kids Slip the Surly Bonds of Leveled Reading: New book touts the critical role teachers ...

Most Americans—including public school teachers—believe schools should teach that America is a fundamentally good country.

Paul E. Peterson interviews Joseph P. Viteritti, author of "Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American ...

Natasha Boone, a 3rd-grade reading teacher, high fives a student at Titche Elementary School in Dallas in 2019. Boone was one of 400 teachers who participated in Dallas ISD’s successful ACE program to ...

In his thought-provoking book, Brave New Words, Sal Khan discusses his early experimentation with generative AI, or GenAI, models and how, over time, they might change education. If AI is a new ...

It can be difficult to keep track of all of the contemporary debates roiling the politics of education. On any given day, news headlines might be highlighting our sharp disagreements over how best to ...

There are no graduates of the Princeton International Academy Charter School, a Mandarin immersion school that was the brainchild of a rocket scientist, because it was never allowed to open. And ...

Reporters love to tell “how I got that story” stories about landing an exclusive interview or being in the right place when news happens. American Public Media’s Emily Hanford, though, is hard-pressed ...

In 1924, Sidney Pressey, a professor from Ohio State University, invented a teaching machine. The mechanical device, about the size of a portable typewriter, allowed students to press one of four keys ...

For decades, the Democrats were “the party of education,” ringing up double-digit leads in polls asking Americans which major party they trusted most to handle education. During parts of the Clinton ...

When Minnesota passed the nation’s first charter-school law in 1991, its main purpose was to improve education by allowing for new, autonomous public schools where teachers would have more freedom to ...

In Neal Stephenson’s 1995 science fiction novel, The Diamond Age, readers meet Nell, a young girl who comes into possession of a highly advanced book, The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer. The book is ...