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Students raising their hands in a school classroom
Commentary
2.27.2025
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction

There is proof that knowledge works. And it’s overwhelming.

Robert Pondiscio

Jill Barshay of The Hechinger Report, one of the better education journalists working today, recently raised concerns about the empirical support for knowledge-rich curricula in improving reading comprehension. But the issue is not a lack of compelling evidence—there is prodigious evidence—but rather the difficulty of isolating long-term curricular effects in research.

Students raising their hands in a school classroom
Student entering a school
Commentary
2.27.2025
Evidence-Based Learning, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Open enrollment deserves bipartisan support

Jude Schwalbach

In recent years, school choice has made impressive strides. Eleven states have codified universal or near-universal private school choice programs.

Student entering a school
Scantron
Commentary
2.27.2025
Accountability & Testing, Evidence-Based Learning, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Hard lessons from the NAEP results

Tim Daly

Scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) were released on January 29. How were they?

Scantron
Homeschooling
Commentary
2.27.2025
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction

Examining a new method of estimating homeschool participation

Jeff Murray

A valuable recent edition of the Journal of School Choice focused entirely on research around homeschooling, aiming to add useful data and rigorous analysis to this little-studied education sector.

Homeschooling
Student doing math in a classroom
Commentary
2.13.2025
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education, Teachers & School Leaders

The impact of advanced education on underprivileged boys

Adam Tyner, Ph.D.

The gender gap in education is less talked about than many other achievement gaps, but it persists.

Student doing math in a classroom
Axe chopping wood
Commentary
2.11.2025
Evidence-Based Learning, Governance

Easy, DOGE. IES matters.

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

If DOGE actually sought the “government efficiency” in its name, it could help modernize the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences. But slashing and burning, as happened the other day, won’t improve matters. It’s just going to weaken the foremost truth squad in American education, the chief sponsor and funder of rigorous analysis, reliable data, and clear-eyed evaluations in a realm that needs more of those things, not less.

Axe chopping wood