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Sep 4, 2025
Montgomery County Public Schools (Maryland) superintendent Thomas Taylor deserves plaudits for tightening up the district’s policies and practices around grading,...
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Aug 20, 2025
Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters wants to take us all back to Lake Wobegon.
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Jul 28, 2025
A myth has persisted in education policy circles that after their first few years on the job, teachers stop improving. This belief has undercut efforts to retain seasoned educators...
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Jul 25, 2025
One of the first rules of partisan politics is to promote issues that unify your own coalition while dividing the other party’s. That’s why the Medicaid cuts in the One...
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Jun 24, 2025
Recessions nudge smart college grads toward reliable, safe careers in education. Artificial intelligence disruptions could do the same.
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May 2, 2025
The last two weeks of April featured a rare doubleheader at the Supreme Court, as the justices took up two cases dealing with the intersection of religious liberty and public...
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Apr 25, 2025
Are high school students better served by completing their math studies with calculus or statistics? This question has provoked lively debate in the education world, in the...
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Apr 8, 2025
It is decision time for the high school class of 2025, with commitments due to colleges by May 1. Among the many factors that students might consider when deciding whether a college...
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Feb 12, 2025
Opponents make lots of arguments against education savings accounts, tax-credit scholarship programs, and other forms of private school choice. But the complaint that schools...
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Jan 30, 2025
A favorable ruling would have a massive impact on America’s education landscape.
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Jan 17, 2025
The forthcoming results from the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress—due out on January 29—are likely to be bad, bad, bad. The term we may hear a lot is that “the...