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After months of campaigning — all the rhetoric, the countless negative ads and the record-setting political spending — Pennsylvanians made a decision: We elected a divided state government.

Instead of increasing federal spending on education, Congress should provide states with greater spending flexibility, reduce burdensome federal regulations and administrative costs, and allow families and communities to hold states responsible for education outcomes. The coronavirus pandemic only makes states’ need for greater flexibility more poignant. With A PLUS, states could spend their funds on any lawful education purpose under state law, providing the type of flexibility to quickly mee...

Two years after its enactment, implementation of the No Child LeftBehind law proceeds by trial and error. Congress missed theopportunity to enact significant programmatic flexibility forstates. It should resist special interest demands for more funding(states have billions of unspent education funds), ensure effectiveimplementation of parental choice and tutoring options, and enactgreater flexibility for the states.

Policymakers can focus on making certain phonics is at the root of reading instruction in Oklahoma schools and in our colleges of education.

MSU report shows low-income third-grade students, students of color retained at higher rates

A new report outlines a dire situation for state education agencies.

Massachusetts bill to fund an Ethnic Studies curriculum raises concern about the potential spread of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish content in our schools.

Many of the West Virginia’s public schools need improvement, made obvious by the recent National Assessment of Educational Progress results, yet some schools turn out accomplished students. West Virginia public

The stakes of learning the wrong way to read are more than just academic for Ashley Stockton. The Wexler-Grant teacher saw firsthand how her son with…

Federal lawmakers must agree on the importance of preschool education.