Republicans and Democrats across the country can seem hopelessly divided these days. But there is a path to common ground in a cause with proven bipartisan appeal: education reform. We recognize that ...

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Mike Petrilli, the president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, recently launched a new Substack, SCHOOLED, that he hopes might help foster common ground on issues like accountability, charter ...

To constructively reform an institution requires understanding its problems and challenges. To understand an institution’s problems and challenges, one must grasp its aims, structure, and spirit. Many ...

Test scores have fallen to historic lows, student mobility has stalled, and the gap between top performers and their peers has widened. Data from the Department of Education and expert testimony show ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The controversial education reforms implemented by Denver Public Schools more than a decade ago positively affected students’ academic outcomes, including ...

Once a sleepy policy area on the national scale, higher education is now a central issue making headlines in the overall political discourse. Believe it or not, the education policy divides between ...

I remember the first time I met Dan Willingham. I had just joined the Core Knowledge Foundation and Dan, a board member and esteemed University of Virginia cognitive scientist, was giving a talk at ...

Since the end of the legislative session, Gov. Phil Scott has signed into law bills concerning chronic absenteeism, immigration protocols in schools and pre-kindergarten school choice for Northeast ...