Dave Barry’s book Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass is a rollicking, sometimes meditative, and genuinely ...

Adam Gamoran, the president of the William T. Grant Foundation, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how the Trump ...

Reading aloud to students to evoke a love of reading was one of the hallmarks of the balanced literacy approach, which is now ...

President Donald Trump has scheduled a “grand” semiquincentennial celebration of the Declaration of Independence in 2026 as ...

I probably shouldn’t be telling you this.” I was on a Zoom call with a national leader in the magnet school movement, someone ...

Critics have taken special umbrage at DOGE’s canceling contracts for the “What Works Clearinghouse,” explaining that the WWC ...

The French classroom of my youth, though austere, was a place of high expectations. As eight-year-olds, we spent countless ...

Paul E. Peterson speaks with Nick Melvoin, member of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education ...

Natasha Boone, a 3rd-grade reading teacher, high fives a student at Titche Elementary School in Dallas in 2019. Boone was one of 400 teachers who participated in Dallas ISD’s successful ACE program to ...

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