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

Trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets. College presidents have kicked over a lot of buckets. I don’t recall hearing a ...

There are two ways to read “Investigating Causal Effects of Arts Education Experiences,” which reports on a first-of-its-kind arts education experiment from Rice University’s Kinder Institute for ...

The school choice movement is winning the fight for universal eligibility. It must now set its sights on universal funding. Vol. 25, No. 3 Subscribe to the web content of Education Next and begin ...

A South Florida Autism Charter School 4th grader reacts to a story during a reading lesson last month. SFACS is one of 36 ...

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 ...

More families are seeking one-on-one help for their kids. What does that tell us about 21st-century education? On a hot and humid July afternoon, the Huntington Learning Center franchise in Brentwood, ...

Teenagers are not known for their coolheaded decision-making, yet they face hundreds of choices with significant long-term consequences. In school, they must decide which courses to take, how much ...

Students start a new school year at Barwell Road Elementary School in Raleigh, N.C. They follow a year-round calendar, with a shorter summer vacation and longer breaks throughout the year. After ...

The 14-year-old in the discipline school, let’s call him Kareem, was having a bad day. He’d gotten into a food fight, and he was in big trouble. He didn’t want to face the principal and whatever ...

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 ...

Ask any high school student in a well-heeled suburban community around the United States the best strategy for applying to college, and chances are you’ll hear something like this: apply to several ...