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Building Diverse College Campuses Starts in Kindergarten
United States Supreme Court Immediately following the announcement of the Supreme Court’s decision outlawing the use of race in college admissions (see “High Court Decision in College Admissions Case...
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The Great Unbundling
The mindsets of parents are changing—rapidly—as they make decisions about the schooling of their children. Over the past few years, a convergence of two megatrends—pandemic desperation and...
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The Evolving Science of How We Read
The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America by Adrian Johns The University of Chicago Press, 2023, $32.50; 504 pages. As reviewed by Natalie Wexler If you’ve been following...
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As Many More States Enact Education Savings Accounts, Implementation...
The year was 2014, and Doug Tuthill remembers taking a call from a top state lawmaker just after the Florida legislature had authorized its first education savings accounts—the type of state-funded...
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AI in Education
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...
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Year-Round Benefits from Summer Jobs
Through the Boston Summer Youth Employment Program, about 10,000 young people receive job-readiness training and work in seasonal jobs each year. During the latter half of the 20th Century, the early...
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Enjoy the Game, but Turn Down the Sound
The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America by Cara Fitzpatrick Basic Books, 2023, $32; 384 pages. As reviewed by Jay P. Greene Cara Fitzpatrick’s new book does...
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2023 Is the Year of Universal Choice in Education Savings Accounts
Education Next senior editor Paul E. Peterson recently spoke with Robert Enlow, president of EdChoice, about the rising popularity of Education Savings Accounts. Robert Enlow Paul Peterson: What is an...
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To Fix Students’ Bad Behavior, Stop Punishing Them
Ten minutes after class starts, a student flings open the door, struts in, and yells, “What’s up, bitches?” If this kind of conduct is familiar to you, you don’t need a primer on how behavior has...
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What I Learned Editing Education Next
When I started as managing editor of Education Next in January 2019, the conventional wisdom was that education reform had run out of gas, or at least stalled out. Much of the Democratic Party, or at...
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