American education is in crisis. Test scores are plummeting. Teachers are burning out. Inequality is growing. And now, an executive order from the White House is reigniting one of the fiercest debates ...

Test scores have fallen to historic lows, student mobility has stalled, and the gap between top performers and their peers has widened. Data from the Department of Education and expert testimony show ...

To constructively reform an institution requires understanding its problems and challenges. To understand an institution’s problems and challenges, one must grasp its aims, structure, and spirit. Many ...

Mike Petrilli, the president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, recently launched a new Substack, SCHOOLED, that he hopes might help foster common ground on issues like accountability, charter ...

President Donald Trump fulfilled a key campaign promise when he signed an executive order to begin dismantling the Department of Education (ED), sending shockwaves throughout an entrenched bureaucracy ...

During his remarks in a Senate hearing today, Senator Tommy Tuberville questioned witnesses on the need for education reform in America. California to sue Trump administration over ‘shortsighted’ and ...