Jim Blew, co-founder of the Defense of Freedom Institute, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a school choice provision in H.R.

We see two roads forward for education choice. Down the well-travelled road, we see the potential “charter-ization” of ...

First and foremost, they should have named the correct problem. Everyone thinks the issue with AI is that just about every ...

4. Reconsider election timing. Most school board elections are held off-cycle—for example, on the same day as the state ...

We need a post-BS civics. In 2025, public officials seem unhealthily consumed by social media celebrity while longstanding ...

This! This is the most undiscussed point in modern education reform. Arnold is where, say, Freddie deBoer is, too: kids ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Vladimir Kogan, a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Ohio State University.

Peterson, P.E. (2025). “ Covid Crimes: While suppression of discourse is dreadful, uninhibited despotism is worse .” ...

With 18 states enacting seven new educational choice programs and expanding 21 existing ones, 2021 has rightly been declared a “breakthrough year” for school choice. In the wake of all this progress, ...

It’s hard to be optimistic about education reform in the wake of the election. This is nothing new; as Tim Daly wrote recently, we’ve been in an “education depression” for over a decade, and that ...

Cut the crap and get back to the business of teaching young citizens about rules, processes, and institutions ...