It is the very foundation of good citizenship.” In 1972, when assessing an objection to a compulsory education law, the court ...

Peterson to discuss efforts to regulate homeschooling rules in states, and the upcoming Emerging School Models: Maintaining the Momentum conference, which will be hosted by Harvard’s Program on ...

After all, it’s easy for activists, attorneys, and academics to pick apart decisions made in the heat of the moment. Indeed, they’ve done this so vociferously that educators are hesitant to enforce ...

Program on Education Policy and Governance Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone(617) 496-5488 Fax(617) 496-4428 Email Educa ...

Evidence form North Carolina shows the folly of education policies that lower expectations to improve achievement ...

Journalism has driven a generational shift in how reading is taught. Similar stories are waiting to be told.

Americans with more education vote at higher rates. In the 2020 presidential election, 77 percent of eligible voters who had attended or graduated from college and 90 percent with post-graduate ...

Larissa May, the founder of #HalfTheStory, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how May’s organization is working to help teens change social media. Vol. 24, No. 2 Education Next is a journal of opinion ...

The U.S. Civil Rights Commission’s 2019 report on Civil Rights enforcement includes vast amounts of data. But its capacious understanding of “enforcement” allows it to disguise key policy choices.

The court-ordered desegregation of American schools was a triumph, but what the mandate means today is far from clear ...