First and foremost, they should have named the correct problem. Everyone thinks the issue with AI is that just about every ...

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.

This! This is the most undiscussed point in modern education reform. Arnold is where, say, Freddie deBoer is, too: kids ...

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

I find it useful to think of IES’s traditional activities as falling into three broad buckets: statistical collections, ...

4. Reconsider election timing. Most school board elections are held off-cycle—for example, on the same day as the state primary, often in March of even-numbered years. Aligning school board elections ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Anna Egalite, Professor in the College of Education at North Carolina State University ...

It’s hard to be optimistic about education reform in the wake of the election. This is nothing new; as Tim Daly wrote recently, we’ve been in an “education depression” for over a decade, and that ...

In Neal Stephenson’s 1995 science fiction novel, The Diamond Age, readers meet Nell, a young girl who comes into possession of a highly advanced book, The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer. The book is ...