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1.16.2025

Get ready for more bad news from NAEP 2024

Michael J. Petrilli

The forthcoming results from the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress—due out on January 29—are likely to be bad, bad, bad. The term we may hear a lot is that “the bottom is falling out,” if the scores for low-performing students in particular continue to plummet.

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1.23.2025

Penny Schwinn: The next Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education

Dale Chu
Penny Schwinn
1.23.2025

Four principles to re-energize the charter school movement

Derrell Bradford
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1.16.2025

Fault lines in the MAGA coalition and what they mean for education

Dale Chu
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1.9.2025

Education reform in red versus blue states

Michael J. Petrilli
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1.14.2025

Passing school choice legislation is likely the easiest part of creating new school choices for families and students

Terry Ryan
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1.2.2025

Ramaswamy nailed the education challenge

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1.9.2025

A system designed to preserve the status quo: New York City Public Schools’ kindergarten choice program

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
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12.19.2024

Elon should stick to cars, rockets, and tech

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The knowledge revival

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Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking: The Knowledge Revival
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Is the new way to remediate community college students working?

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On school shootings

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Arkansas’ effort to make Advanced Placement courses universally accessible

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How college AP and IB policies make it harder to graduate early

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1.9.2025

Third grade is too late to assess student literacy

Chad Aldeman
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Who and what you know: The impact of middle school diversity on New York’s high school choice program

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Closing out 2024 with both eyes closed

Dale Chu
Bye 2024

Ohio

1.21.2025

Has Ohio erased its charter funding gaps?

Aaron Churchill
1.16.2025

The irrational hysteria over the billion-dollar price tag of Ohio’s private school scholarships

Aaron Churchill
1.14.2025

Ohio could bolster its teacher pipeline by supporting student teachers

Jessica Poiner
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Five bold predictions for Ohio education policy in 2025

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Counting down five of Ohio’s biggest education headlines from 2024

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