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The Education Exchange: Does the U.S. Department of Education Help Student Achievement? To answer that question, the agency’s research arm must remain intact. bit.ly/444YCTA
The Education Exchange: Does the U.S. Department of Education Help Student Achievement?
Paul E. Peterson interviews Rocco Testani, co-leader of the Eversheds Sutherland Business and Commercial Litigation team
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November 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The Grifters Who Plundered Publishing: Scolds, censors, and identity hawks want to ensure your kids don’t read “dangerous” books. bit.ly/47JrLGe
The Grifters Who Plundered Publishing
Scolds, censors, and identity hawks want to ensure your kids don’t read “dangerous” books
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November 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Restarting the Education Reform Conversation: Two EdNext editors walk into a Substack … bit.ly/3LFUZNF
Restarting the Education Reform Conversation
Two <em>EdNext</em> editors walk into a Substack …
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November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
International Students Need Not Apply: Amid shifting attitudes on immigration worldwide, major English-speaking countries are erecting policy barriers to students from abroad. bit.ly/47iDGux
International Students Need Not Apply
Amid shifting attitudes on immigration worldwide, major English-speaking countries are erecting policy barriers to students from abroad
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November 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
A Fairer Framework for Evaluating Choice: The same demands made on voucher programs should apply to all education models—especially traditional public schools. bit.ly/3WTRHZv
A Fairer Framework for Evaluating Choice
The same demands made on voucher programs should apply to all education models—especially traditional public schools
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November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
New York City Could Easily Double Teacher Pay. Why Doesn’t It? Today’s salaries are the outcome of dubious decisions, not a lack of taxpayer funds. bit.ly/4owIwdy
New York City Could Easily Double Teacher Pay. Why Doesn’t It?
Today’s salaries are the outcome of dubious decisions, not a lack of taxpayer funds
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November 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Mamdani’s Education Plan: Ask Around, Find Out. To improve New York City’s schools, the mayor-elect should appeal to the grassroots enthusiasm that put him into office. bit.ly/47XegBD
Mamdani's Education Plan: Ask Around, Find Out
To improve New York City’s schools, the mayor-elect should appeal to the grassroots enthusiasm that put him into office
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November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Joseph P. Viteritti, the author of "Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education," is this week's guest on the Education Exchange. bit.ly/43G6Dy3
The Education Exchange: When Radicals Dreamed Big About Better Student Outcomes
Paul E. Peterson interviews Joseph P. Viteritti, author of "Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education"
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October 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Helping Kids Slip the Surly Bonds of Leveled Reading: New book touts the critical role teachers play in literacy development. bit.ly/3WtDt1i
Helping Kids Slip the Surly Bonds of Leveled Reading
New book touts the critical role teachers play in literacy development
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October 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Should Schools Teach That America Is Good? Polling finds that teachers, more than the general public, believe schools should. bit.ly/4qwVdXm
Should Schools Teach That America Is Good?
Polling finds that teachers, more than the general public, believe schools should
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October 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Campus Leaders Conveniently Find the Spines They Lost Years Ago: Trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets. College presidents have kicked over a lot of buckets. bit.ly/4no8VJ8
Campus Leaders Conveniently Find the Spines They Lost Years Ago
Trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets. College presidents have kicked over a lot of buckets.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
How to Really Know a Thing, Directed by Quentin Tarantino: The filmmaker’s passion and precision about ’70s cinema is worth adopting in education. bit.ly/48hnDho
How to Really Know a Thing, Directed by Quentin Tarantino
The filmmaker’s passion and precision about ’70s cinema is worth adopting in education
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October 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Unleashing Education Freedom’s True Potential: The school choice movement is winning the fight for universal eligibility. It must now set its sights on universal funding. bit.ly/496sx10
Unleashing Education Freedom’s True Potential
The school choice movement is winning the fight for universal eligibility. It must now set its sights on universal funding.
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October 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The Wrong Kind of Civic Education: Our perpetual cycle of shutdowns, shakedowns, and deficits is teaching our youth all the wrong lessons about American principles. bit.ly/4qcmX3k
The Wrong Kind of Civic Education
Our perpetual cycle of shutdowns, shakedowns, and deficits is teaching our youth all the wrong lessons about American principles
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October 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Inside Florida’s Charter Schools for Exceptional Students: How parental choice is reshaping special education in the Sunshine State. bit.ly/4nPYM9r
Inside Florida’s Charter Schools for Exceptional Students
How parental choice is reshaping special education in the Sunshine State
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October 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The Progressive School Reform Voices Crying in the Wilderness: Profiles of the courageous few on the left who championed choice read today like ancient history. bit.ly/43cNuDE
The Progressive School Reform Voices Crying in the Wilderness
Profiles of the courageous few on the left who championed choice read today like ancient history
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October 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
SecEd Maddow Makes College Presidents an Offer They Can’t Refuse. If Trump’s higher ed “compact” was good for the goose, AOC’s will be even better for the gander. bit.ly/4pVBf8p
SecEd Maddow Makes College Presidents an Offer They Can’t Refuse
If Trump’s higher ed “compact” was good for the goose, AOC’s will be even better for the gander
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October 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Are Charter Schools an Endangered Species? The school choice coalition is showing cracks, and charters could be the worse for it. bit.ly/3IuLOP0
Are Charter Schools an Endangered Species?
The school choice coalition is showing cracks, and charters could be the worse for it
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October 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
No Simple Answers for Kids and Screens: The instinct to regulate children’s digital consumption is admirable. But what if tech isn’t the bogeyman we think it is? bit.ly/42O7s7A
No Simple Answers for Kids and Screens
The instinct to regulate children’s digital consumption is admirable. But what if tech isn’t the bogeyman we think it is?
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September 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
What If Social Science Is a Scam? A new book on the “signing first” scandal should make us question if any research in the field is relevant or reliable. bit.ly/3IJgBHM
What If Social Science Is a Scam?
A new book on the “signing first” scandal should make us question if any research in the field is relevant or reliable
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September 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Today and tomorrow, the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University is hosting its fourth annual conference on emerging school models. Register to watch online at bit.ly/46ial2N.

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September 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Paul E. Peterson interviews Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District, on the Education Exchange podcast. bit.ly/3KgSbpu
The Education Exchange: How to Save a School District
Paul E. Peterson interviews Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District
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September 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Clapping Back at Homeschooling’s Perennial Foes and Fallacies: Let’s set the record straight about why more families are choosing home education. bit.ly/46vKFyp
Clapping Back at Homeschooling’s Perennial Foes and Fallacies
Let’s set the record straight about why more families are choosing home education
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September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Start-Up Culture Comes to K–12 Accreditation. ESA laws can support—or stifle—new schools. bit.ly/4mqHxtD
Start-Up Culture Comes to K–12 Accreditation
ESA laws can support—or stifle—new schools
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September 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
How Not to Honor Charlie Kirk: The illiberal responses to Kirk’s assassination have grave implications for America’s schools, colleges, and students. bit.ly/4nOOi9X
How Not to Honor Charlie Kirk
The illiberal responses to Kirk’s assassination have grave implications for America’s schools, colleges, and students
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September 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM