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Last week, as leading education experts gathered — again —to ponder the nation’s sluggish recovery from pandemic learning loss, one speaker put the issue in stark relief. “This is the biggest problem facing America,” Jens Ludwig, a University of Chicago professor, said flatly. Nonetheless, he told those assembled at the Washington, D.C., event sponsored by […]

(The Center Square) – Sixteen rural school districts in North Carolina will get help on math education through a $7.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, a release

Parents need a choice if their child’s school is failing.

This essay was originally published as part of the Center on Reinventing Public Education’s 2023 “State of the American Student” report. As part of the effort, CRPE asked 14 experts from various sectors to offer up examples of innovations, solutions or possible paths forward as education leaders navigate the current crisis. (See all the perspectives) […]

Opinion: Reseachers at Harvard claim that Arizona charter schools lag their peers. But that's not what years of state data tell us.

The St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School in Oklahoma, slated to become the first religious charter school in the nation, faces the usual fury of secularists trying to thwart its progress. But a group of Catholic nuns in Oregon 100 years ago and this Supreme Court show why the school should prevail and provide encouragement to other states expanding educational options.

As they scramble to improve literacy rates among Hoosier students, state lawmakers seem adamant to toughen Indiana’s policy that requires most kids who are deficient in reading to repeat the

While U.S. math scores declined on the Program for International Student Assessment test, reading scores remained stable, bucking a global trend.

At the heart of the divide between DeSantis and Newsom is who they recognize as the real education experts: parents or government.

Scrambling to improve literacy rates among Hoosier students, state lawmakers seem adamant to toughen Indiana’s policy that requires most kids who are deficient in reading to repeat the third grade.