Standardized test requirements should be aligned with mission—a fact that demands a variety of approaches across different ...

State laws and constitutions guarantee all children in the United States the right to a publicly funded education. That doesn’t mean a right only to a public school education. The Supreme Court has ...

In more than 50 years observing Florida politics as a legislator and citizen, I have never witnessed an assault on public ...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, are persistent critics of public K-12 schools and higher education and want to overhaul many aspects of how the ...

Public schools need to change. Such a statement is common to pieces written about American education and is usually followed by an author’s preferred remedies—such as strengthening standards, ...

In their 2020 book, A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire sounded the alarm: The threat to public education...is grave. A radical vision for unmaking the very idea of ...

I enjoy reading you and think you make some useful points, even if I disagree with some of your conclusions. But I recently heard you on a podcast and was a left a little confused. For one thing, I ...

Higher education accreditation is in crisis. Accreditation was once an important signal, giving parents and students useful information about the value of a college degree. Now it has been reduced to ...

The growing efforts to direct public funding to private and religious schools through vouchers, education savings accounts, and tuition tax credits pose a significant threat to public education. Such ...

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks at an event in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House, in Washington, DC, on March 16, 2022.

Before the Civil War, America had few institutions like Antioch College. Founded in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1850, Antioch was coed and unaffiliated with any religious sect; it was also the first ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Manno writes on education, workforce training, and career pathways. Three factors have fueled a slow but relentless wave of ...