New survey results show that "Americans believe the K-12 education system should redirect its focus on what it means to successfully prepare American students—equipping them with practical skills that prepare them for life."
Plus: The editors field a listener question on college admissions and affirmative action.
Healthy cities are a boon not just for those who live in them, but for our entire society.
The state high court rules against the Education Opportunity Act.
Expanding options empowers families and improves education in the country and the city alike.
While open-enrollment policies are intended to provide opportunities regardless of a student's zip code, many states fall short of this goal.
There’s no reason to argue over lessons and policies when you can pick what works for your family.
"The score decline really reflects students' lack of access to a rigorous high school curriculum," says the senior director for state partnerships at ACT.
Data show that students admitted by lottery to San Francisco's Lowell High School are academically faring much worse than their peers.
Instead of being attached to public schools, funding follows students to learning options they choose.
Citing costs, California Gov. Gavin Newsom struck a victory for parental choice in education.
Whether in response to pandemic closures or policy changes made in the name of "equity," people classified as white are fleeing government-run K-12 in startling numbers.
"There's a new special interest group in town: parents."
The school-choice scholar and activist explains why "backpack funding" is here to stay, why Texas is terrible on school choice, why CRT bans are a bad idea, and why even non-parents should care about radical reform.
In the popular imagination, teachers are compensated terribly. What about in the real world?
The intellectual watchdog keeps tabs on everyone from The 1619 Project's Nikole Hannah-Jones to Mises Institute's Hans-Hermann Hoppe in the name of serious scholarship.
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Intellectual watchdog Phil Magness talks Nikole Hannah-Jones, Nancy MacLean, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and Kevin Kruse.
Plus: The editors respond to a question about the Forward Party.
After a whole year of COVID-related learning loss, kids are now losing out on even more instructional time thanks to Seattle's teachers union.
Democrats and Republicans share dismay over how educators handled the pandemic and support alternatives.
Teachers unions and progressive politicians pushed for school closures during the pandemic. New assessments of 9-year-olds suggest a devastating learning loss.
By forcing kids to learn from home, teachers unions did more to promote the need for radical K-12 education reform than a million activists.
The Stolen Year acknowledges the public schools' COVID failures but refuses to hold anyone responsible.
School choice would help families escape classroom battles by leaving the battleground.
Enemies of educational freedom are using inane regulations to target learning pods.
Educational freedom is good for everybody but unions, bureaucrats, and the education establishment.
Despite such attacks, school choice programs find broad support from American parents.
Virtual learning was a policy choice, and the politicians who supported it are responsible.
The leading libertarian legal theorist talks about worrying trends at the Supreme Court as a conservative majority takes hold.
Arizona's new law should make alternative school arrangements more accessible than ever to families interested in educating their kids instead of funding bureaucracies.
Plus: stereotypes within libertarianism, and Katherine compares the editors to Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters.
The article explains why the Supreme Court was right to hold that state voucher programs can’t discriminate against “sectarian” religious schools and addresses various objections.
“A State violates the Free Exercise Clause when it excludes religious observers from otherwise available public benefits,” the Supreme Court held.
The decision is an important victory for both the principle of nondiscrimination and parents and students seeking better educational opportunities.
States may not "exclude some members of the community from an otherwise generally available public benefit because of their religious exercise,” says SCOTUS.
With educational freedom at stake, these midterm elections could defy the odds and be constructive.
Big rulings are coming soon on school choice, guns, and abortion.
Charter schools are included in the mandate that students use facilities of their birth sex, regardless of what students and families might want.
Republicans are in danger of squandering a promising opportunity for education reform on culture war squabbles.
Families should be able to put energy into educating kids rather than fighting over what is taught.
The answer for students who feel unwelcome or underserved where they are is to expand the schooling market.
Somebody tell Tim James that his political party actually supports school choice.
It's not supporting “parents’ rights” to censor topics at private schools that families decide to send their children to.
State-level "gag orders" on teaching certain texts and ideas are terrible and utterly predictable in a one-size-fits-all K-12 educational system.
School enrollment based solely on geography must come to an end.
You are not for school choice or parents’ rights when you try to ban race and LGBT subjects in private education.
A major school choice bill is sitting in legislative limbo.
Gov. Spencer Cox supports school choice but will only sign the bill once Utah pays teachers more than any other state.
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