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Football goalposts
Commentary
2.5.2026
Accountability & Testing, Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Private School Choice

School choice supporters keep moving the goal posts

Michael J. Petrilli

Over the past decade or so, as the education reform movement has increasingly splintered along partisan lines, the number of people who support both charter schools and private school choice has shrunk to almost nothing. One cause of the growing divide is that some private school choice advocates are making demands that are increasingly outlandish.

Football goalposts
Texas Capitol
Commentary
2.5.2026
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Why Texas is right to name the books students should read

Robert Pondiscio

Texas is once again at the center of a familiar but unresolved debate about literacy, culture, and the proper role of schools.

Texas Capitol
Student taking a test
Commentary
2.5.2026
Evidence-Based Learning, Governance

Should states cover AP exam costs for all students?

Meredith Coffey, Ph.D.

When high schoolers pass Advanced Placement (AP) exams, they can earn college credits, making them more likely to complete college within four years and likely increasing their earnings in adulthood.

Student taking a test
Chalkboard line graph
Commentary
2.5.2026
Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

Pandemic learning loss by grade

Alicia Anderson

A steady stream of recent research has reported on the pandemic’s disparate effects on education. Unsurprisingly, lost learning time hurt children, particularly those who needed the most support.

Chalkboard line graph
Students taking a test
Commentary
1.30.2026
Accountability & Testing, Evidence-Based Learning, Governance

Next-gen NAEP initiative aims to modernize and improve

Lesley Muldoon

Over the next several weeks, more than 500,000 students across the country will take an updated version of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in math and reading, but more improvements may be on the way.

Students taking a test
Gadfly Guy
Commentary
1.30.2026

What we’re reading: January 30, 2026

The Education Gadfly

WHAT WE’RE READING “Tennessee Republicans want a Houston-style takeover of Memphis schools. What does that mean?”—Bri Hatch, Chalkbeat Tennessee —

Gadfly Guy
Teenagers in library looking at phones
Commentary
1.29.2026
Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

The TikTok generation presents schools with a difficult choice

Brandon L. Wright

Screens have fundamentally shifted how young minds process information, form connections, and understand the world around them. This presents schools with a stark choice: Do we struggle against the current and try to restore traditional expectations? Or do we acknowledge that those ships have sailed and adapt our systems to meet students where they are? The tempting middle path where schools try to do both may be the worst option of all.

Teenagers in library looking at phones
Man making a speech
Commentary
1.29.2026
Accountability & Testing, Evidence-Based Learning, School Finance, Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Private School Choice, Teachers & School Leaders

How to become an “education governor” in 2026

Chad Aldeman

Dear governor, Do you want to be remembered for your leadership on education? Your state may be spending nearly half its budget on schools, and yet test scores continue to fall, especially for the students who need the most help.

Man making a speech
Student raising hand
Commentary
1.29.2026
Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

A new look at charter schools’ supposed weakness

J.T. Young

A recent study offers a new look at charter schools’ special education performance. The Michigan findings show that special education students performed better in charter schools than in traditional public schools.

Student raising hand
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

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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.

Students reading