nationally representative assessment of what American students know and can do in core subjects
Ian Rowe, Brad Wilcox, and Grant Bailey highlight the importance of family structure in determining students’ academic success. The federal government collects a wealth of data to help us understand…
Rachelle Peterson writes for the Federalist about a piece of legislation that would boost student learning. Kids hardly read anymore, for pleasure or for school, so it’s no wonder reading…
Dan Lips explains why the rest of the nation can learn a valuable lesson from one deep-South state. The United States will not achieve equal opportunity in K-12 education until…
A new report shows that students across the Carolinas face many of the same problems identified by the Reagan administration in its landmark report A Nation at Risk more than…
Helen Raleigh writes for the Federalist about an interesting pattern emerging with reading scores in American schools. NAEP assesses the reading and math skills of America’s fourth and eighth graders.…
We hear a lot about how much states are spending on education. Not so much about how much we’re get for that spending. Until now. Edunomics Lab, a university-based research…
The New York Post recently ran a story about how the Empire State spends a whopping $36,200 per student on education, the highest in the nation. With the ever-present mantra…
Scores on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) were released on Jan. 29. Across the country, many hoped to see signs that students were recovering from pandemic learning…
Introduction North Carolina spends billions each year on K–12 public education. Is the money being spent wisely? Answering that question involves informal as well as formal processes. Informally, parents render…
James Cirrone writes for DailyMail.com about the latest demands from Chicago’s public school teachers union. The Chicago Teachers Union’s contract is set to expire in June which will soon prompt…
Research on the pandemic’s effect on student enrichment shows that just forty-five percent of North Carolina’s K-12 students passed state reading, math, and science exams. Recently, Donna King, editor-in-chief of…
Alec Schemmel and Meghan Blonder write for the Washington Free Beacon about a Biden administration prediction that’s unlikely to pan out. Decades-low eighth-grade reading and math scores are no reason…