Michael Kirst, professor emeritus of education at Stanford University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a recently passed law that gives California’s governor more power over education in the state.

But parents may yet awaken to the harm that a device-driven culture of corner-cutting and distraction is visiting upon their ...

For the better part of a century, most public school teachers in the United States were paid according to rigid “step and lane” systems, with pay and tenure based on education and years of experience.

A Head Start center in Baltimore, Maryland, was one of about 1,600 in operation across the U.S. as of late 2025. A proposed ...

Angela R. Watson, a senior research fellow at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how regulations with the new Federal Scholarship Tax Credit may ...

I hadn’t spoken to 22nd-Century Skills guru Paul Banksley for a few months. But with AI looming so large in the future of education, I wanted to get the celebrated innovator’s take on where things are ...

As parents and teachers discover more reasons to question the indiscriminate carpet bombing of classrooms with digital devices and ed tech of dubious pedagogical value, a case from Arizona reveals ...

Rick Hess: Howard, I’ve contended that AI doesn’t change the knowledge students need to learn. You disagree. I want to get into your take, but let’s start with a bit of context. When did you first ...

The Trump administration’s proposal to transfer the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to the Department of Justice has generated predictable opposition. Critics argue that the ...

Mike Miles, the superintendent of Houston Independent School District, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Miles’ new book, By Design: How to Transform School Systems. This is the Education Exchange ...