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 ...

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

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

Paul E. Peterson interviews Vladimir Kogan, a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Ohio State University.

Do the paths to leadership and influence in America run directly through the campuses of the most exclusive colleges? That’s a common perception and the clear implication of two recent academic ...

Terry Ryan: Let’s get into education and what you’ve learned and can share. Steve Farkas: One of my favorite studies, which we replicated several years later, was a study of education professors. The ...

The Role of Family Finances. We look at another state policy that shapes family decision-making: vouchers. Currently, 14 states and Washington, D.C. allow vouchers. To analyze this issue, we took a ...

The Role of Teacher Turnover. We focus on teacher departures from Dallas ISD to understand the effects of evaluation and compensation reform on the district’s workforce rather than looking at new ...

The debate over critical race theory in K–12 schools took center stage in 2021 during the Virginia gubernatorial election. Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin heavily criticized CRT during his ...

It can be difficult to keep track of all of the contemporary debates roiling the politics of education. On any given day, news headlines might be highlighting our sharp disagreements over how best to ...