5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (261+ words) Rick Hess: You’ve recently proposed overhauling the regulations that govern Head Start. What’s the story? Hess: What motivated these changes? Hess: How will loosening these requirements help boost the number of kids served? Hess: As you know, critics have warned…...

1+ mon, 17+ hour ago   (977+ words) What will teen life be like in 10 years? As co-founders of a nonprofit that studies 3 p.m.-to-3 a.m. teen behavior, we often disagree a bit as we try to read the tea leaves. First, to understand what teenagers are like today, we…...

1+ mon, 21+ hour ago   (465+ words) Jal Mehta: Rick, I sense a heartening trend in the “education reform” conversation: More and more folks are starting to ask the right questions about ed tech. Robin Lake, the director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, recently wrote…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (216+ words) Unmet Needs or Unformed Character? Maynard’s approach precludes the possibility that some forms of misconduct are manifestations of ordinary human temptations. Children, no less than adults, succumb to impulses of selfishness, dishonesty, cruelty, and the desire to test limits. A…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (389+ words) John Dewey had this in mind when he published Democracy and Education in 1916, a book that turns 110 this year, the same year America turns 250. This coincidence is worth contemplating. Both anniversaries invite the same question: What does it take to…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (566+ words) If I wanted to be thorough, I might also mention that it’s one of the fastest growing education models in the nation, with over 1,500 classical schools operating in 2024. About one-third of those schools opened in the last decade. How is…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (269+ words) Paul E. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and founding editor of Education Next, a…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (860+ words) Yet any enthusiasm with which observers may welcome the latest results must be tempered. Historically, the slightest uptick in scores has been interpreted as a harbinger of long-term educational improvement. As such, it might be tempting to downplay the fact…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1092+ words) The kid grabbed me by my shirt. “Mister, help me!” he pleaded. Chicago’s civic avatars explained that CPS has a duty “not just to manage schools” but “to actively expand rights, fight for equitable funding, confront injustice, and build a…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago   (268+ words) Paul E. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and founding editor of Education Next, a…...