We see two roads forward for education choice. Down the well-travelled road, we see the potential “charter-ization” of ...

Jim Blew, co-founder of the Defense of Freedom Institute, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a school choice provision in H.R.

First and foremost, they should have named the correct problem. Everyone thinks the issue with AI is that just about every ...

4. Reconsider election timing. Most school board elections are held off-cycle—for example, on the same day as the state ...

We need a post-BS civics. In 2025, public officials seem unhealthily consumed by social media celebrity while longstanding ...

This! This is the most undiscussed point in modern education reform. Arnold is where, say, Freddie deBoer is, too: kids ...

Peterson, P.E. (2025). “ Covid Crimes: While suppression of discourse is dreadful, uninhibited despotism is worse .” ...

Vladimir Kogan, a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Ohio State University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a new report which finds that half of school board election races go ...

I find it useful to think of IES’s traditional activities as falling into three broad buckets: statistical collections, ...

A big frustration with policy is that it can feel far removed from the real work of schooling. Why is that? What can we do about it? Such questions seem well worth digging into today, and I can’t ...

Students from South Bronx Community Charter High School join community leaders in the Future of the City March against police brutality in December 2017. In June 2019, Steven Wilson, then CEO of the ...