Jake Tapper: Madam Secretary, it’s been a wild few weeks since you were confirmed as President Ocasio-Cortez’s secretary of education. Secretary of Education Rachel Maddow: It sure has, Jake. I mean, ...

Derrell Bradford, the president of 50CAN, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how states might react to the new tax credit ...

In school-choice circles, Milton Friedman’s 1955 essay “ The Role of Government in Education ” is considered a (if not the) ...

Over-regulation and under-regulation of school choice are two sides of the same bad coin ...

Goodman, J., and Francis, A. (2025). “ School Enrollment Shifts Five Years After the Pandemic: Public education sees ...

Large audiences flock to their content, suggesting a hunger for knowledge that schools need to be able to satisfy ...

The trial of John T. Scopes was an irresistible spectacle that pitted evolution against religion, with public schools as the ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Robert Maranto, the 21st Century Chair in Leadership in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas ...

The new Superman is a solid, kid-friendly movie with healthy, old-school values. That wouldn’t seem to merit comment, except ...

Permitting Religious Charter Schools Would Strengthen Parental Choice By Nicole Stelle Garnett Nicole Stelle Garnett In 2012, I wrote an essay called “Are Charters Enough Choice? School Choice and the ...

Elon Musk’s DOGE team has been hacking its way through the Department of Education and chopping off what it can. This has mostly meant targeting small, discretionary programs—since bigger programs ...

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 ...