At a recent school board meeting in Los Angeles, the budget director put up a slide with a dire warning. Los Angeles Unified, the second-largest school district in the country, is on pace to spend more than half of its annual budget on retirement and health-care costs by the year 2031. By then, it is projected to spend 22.4 percent of its budget on pensions and 28.4 on health-c...

On January 11, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the most significant special-education case in 35 years, Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District. Even as the justices seemed to favor increasing education benefits for disabled children, they expressed deep uncertainty about whether the court is the appropriate institution to accomplish that aim. Endrew F...

Education Next and PDK both released the results of major surveys of public opinion about education in recent weeks. Joshua Starr, the president of PDK, joins Paul E Peterson to discuss the results of the two surveys. Follow The Education Exchange on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher or here on Education Next. — Education Next Source: EducationNext...

Education reformers and academics calling for greater regulation of private school choice programs have good intentions. They want all kids to get the best education possible and they believe that they can achieve that goal by preventing disadvantaged families from making bad choices. After all, if parents are only allowed to make good choices, shouldn’t their children get goo...

I just came back from the National Convening of the Arts Education Partnership. It was a fantastic gathering of arts advocates, researchers, and practitioners. I was particularly struck by the comments during the opening session made by Eric Martin, who leads Music for All . He noted that parents and communities tend to want more arts education that their schools often provide...

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Executive Summary Colleges and universities must balance many goals, and research universities in particular aspire to excellence in both teaching and research. University administrators and policymakers alike are interested in ensuing that publicly-supported private and public universities operate at high levels of instructional and scholarly quality, but to date we know litt...

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Where’s the Latino leadership when it comes to education reform? Latinos themselves support education reform at higher levels than other groups, but their elected officials—whether Latino or not—often reject school choice. The leading Latino civil rights organizations follow suit. Last month, both the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) and the League of United Latin American Ci...

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