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Diverse students
Commentary
1.29.2026
Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Private School Choice, Teachers & School Leaders

How school choice affects racial and ethnic segregation patterns in traditional districts

Jeff Murray

Traditional school districts have increasingly embraced giving students more options within their systems in recent decades, in response to growing charter and private school competition and the desire of district parents for more specialized programs and services for their children.

Diverse students
Tutoring
Commentary
1.23.2026
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

Only great managers can do tutoring right

Bowen Paulle

Editor’s note: This was first published in SCHOOLED, Mike Petrilli’s Substack, which hosts weekly education-reform conversations around K–12’s biggest topics.

Tutoring
Gadfly Guy
Commentary
1.23.2026

Cheers and Jeers: January 23, 2026

The Education Gadfly

CHEERS: After initial community resistance to Houston’s state takeover, a recent survey indicates families increasingly believe the district is heading in the right direction. —Naaz Modan, K–12 Dive

Gadfly Guy
Sacred Heart Academy in Biloxi Mississippi
Commentary
1.22.2026
Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Private School Choice, Teachers & School Leaders

Educational choice is giving new hope to Catholic schools

Mike McShane

Today is one of the most hopeful times for Catholic education since the early 1960s, when tuitions started to rise and enrollments started their long decline. Today’s private-school choice programs solve that problem.

Sacred Heart Academy in Biloxi Mississippi
Student raising her hand
Commentary
1.22.2026
Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Classrooms aren’t battlegrounds

Dale Chu

The grownups are fighting harder and louder than they have in years, both in words and deeds, about education, as well as everything else. Across the political spectrum, schools are treated not as civic institutions but as battlegrounds in a broader struggle over identity, power, and national belonging.

Student raising her hand
Stephen H. Hess
Commentary
1.20.2026

Remembering Stephen Hess

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Stephen H. Hess, 1933–2026 I lost a great friend, and America lost one of its finest writer/historians, when Steve Hess passed away on Sunday morning at the age of 92.

Stephen H. Hess
Student and tutor
Commentary
1.16.2026
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

Tutoring works when it’s done well. Period.

Kevin Huffman

Editor’s note: This was first published in SCHOOLED, Mike Petrilli’s Substack, which hosts weekly education-reform conversations around K–12’s biggest topics.

Student and tutor
Student and tutor
Commentary
1.16.2026
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

Three reasons to support tutoring

Liz Cohen

Editor’s note: This was first published in SCHOOLED, Mike Petrilli’s Substack, which hosts weekly education-reform conversations around K–12’s biggest topics.

Student and tutor
Students reading
Commentary
1.15.2026
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

For the science of reading, the “big work” is yet to come

Meredith Coffey, Ph.D.

With more than 40 states having passed science-of-reading legislation, what comes next? What will make such laws succeed? Last month, we gathered a team of literacy and implementation experts to get their take. Here’s some of what we learned.

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Student reading
Commentary
1.15.2026
Curriculum & Instruction

In praise of short works of literature

Daniel Buck

In the past few months, there has been much rending of cloths and gnashing of teeth over the decline in classroom book reading (see here, here,

Student reading
Student raising hand in classroom
Commentary
1.13.2026
Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

The importance of useful knowledge and truth-seeking

Matthew Levey

Economist Joel Mokyr, who won the Nobel Prize in 2025, asks why some societies generate sustained economic growth while others, with seemingly similar resources and institutions, do not. At a time of great uncertainty about our social and economic progress, his question feels urgent.

Student raising hand in classroom
Wall clock
Commentary
1.8.2026

A generation that doesn’t know what time it is

Dale Chu

In New York City schools, the recent ban on smartphones has brought attention to some students' inability to read analog clocks. Meanwhile, the phrase “knowing what time it is” has circulated on the right as a kind of political shibboleth meant to distinguish self-described post-liberals from more traditional conservatives. Considered together, the figurative and literal “time” problems feed each other and signal a worrisome trend in America.

Wall clock
Open book
Commentary
1.8.2026

The education research handbook that never closes

Bruno V. Manno

If you’re a policymaker, district leader, or reporter trying to follow education research, it can feel like drinking from multiple fire hoses at once. One week brings a bold new claim about dual enrollment. Next week, there’s a re-analysis of charter school impacts or a skeptical take on short-term workforce credentials.

Open book
Lou Gerstner
Commentary
1.5.2026
Accountability & Testing, Standards, Teachers & School Leaders

Remembering Lou Gerstner

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Another tall education-reform tree fell the other day when Lou Gerstner passed away. The super-chief of IBM and overall business savant also spearheaded a memorable era when corporate tycoons, governors, leading educators—and U.S. presidents—joined together to get stuff done in the K–12 realm.

Lou Gerstner
2025
Commentary
12.18.2025
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Why 2025 was a good year for education reform

Michael J. Petrilli

2025 will be remembered for a lot of bad news outside of education, but inside our little sandbox of ed-reform, there’s plenty to be grateful for—and more light than darkness

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