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American Adolescence in 2026 (with Daniel A. Cox)

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Private Tutoring Centers—A Bigger Deal than You Think (with Joshua Goodman)

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Implementing AI (with Philip Oreopoulos)

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Should We Close the US Department of Education?

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How Schools Should Approach Mental Health (with Carolyn D. Gorman)

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How AI and Screens Are Changing Reading (with Naomi Baron)

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Curriculum, Coherence, and Change (with John White)

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The Latest on Chronic Absenteeism (with Nat Malkus)

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The Semiquincentennial Edition (with Yuval Levin)

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Inside the Department of Education (with Kirsten Baesler)

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What Harvard's New Grade Inflation Policy Gets Wrong (with Scott Duke Kominers)

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A Rising Tide in Alabama (with Eric Mackey)

13

Education and the Second Trump Administration, 471 Days In

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What Can AI Replace in Higher Education? (with Hollis Robbins)

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Best Of: Eva Moskowitz on Success Academy

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The Effects of Grade Inflation (with Jeff Denning)

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Mathematical Flexibility and Teaching Middle School Math (with Jon Star)

18

Lee Bollinger on Universities and the Trump Administration

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The Making of America’s Schools: From Revolution to Civil War (with Johann Neem)

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Randi Weingarten on the Teaching Profession

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Math Academy (with Jason Roberts and Justin Skycak)

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2025 in Review

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Should AI Be Used in Classrooms Today?

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Alpha School (with MacKenzie Price)

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Education and the Second Trump Administration, 303 Days In

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Lessons from Pandemic-Era Tutoring (with Liz Cohen)

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Houston, We Have a Solution (with Mike Miles)

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Do Phones Make Students Less Able to Focus? (with Dan Willingham)

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Why Are Test Scores Falling? (with James Wyckoff and Chad Aldeman)

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Education and the Second Trump Administration, 233 Days In

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The Competitive Effects of School Choice (with Sarah Cordes)

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Adult Interests vs. Student Needs (with Vlad Kogan)

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AI Lessons from Nigeria (with Martín De Simone)

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Education and the Second Trump Administration, 177 Days In

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Big Changes to Student Lending in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (with Preston Cooper)

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The Unintended Effects of Increased Technology Access (with Jared Schachner)

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Education and the Second Trump Administration, 135 Days In

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Jonathan Haidt on Childhood, Play, and Social Media

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Education and the Second Trump Administration, 121 Days In

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Pandemic School Closures, Five Years Later (with David Zweig)

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Education and the Second Trump Administration, 107 Days In

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Religious Charter Schools?

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Education and the Second Trump Administration, 93 Days In

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Success (with Eva Moskowitz)

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Education and the Second Trump Administration, 79 Days In

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Talking Math Instruction (with Anna Stokke)

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Education and the Second Trump Administration, 58 Days In

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Should Congress Grant the NCAA an Antitrust Exemption?

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Credit Recovery (with Carolyn J. Heinrich)

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The NAEP 2024 Rundown (with Marty West and Mark Schneider)

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Told a Story (with Emily Hanford)

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Learning in War-Time (with Russ Roberts)

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2024 in Review

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Do Exceptional Students Need Exceptional Mentors? (with Ian Calaway)

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Cognitive Load Theory, Explicit Teaching, and Bringing Research Into the Classroom (with Greg Ashman)

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What the 2024 Elections Mean for Education

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Choice, Accountability, and Peer Effects (with David Figlio)

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AP, SAT, and the College Board (with David Coleman)

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Campus Free Speech (with Cass Sunstein)

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Return on Investment in Higher Education (with Preston Cooper)

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How Did the Pandemic Change Schooling? (with Brian Jacob)

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State Leadership and the Mississippi Miracle (with Carey Wright)

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Best Of: Katharine Birbalsingh on Michaela

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Did ESSER Work? (with Dan Goldhaber)

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Phonics, Comprehension, and Disciplinary Literacy (with Timothy Shanahan)

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John W. Boyer on Campus Protests, Free Expression, and the University of Chicago

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Sal Khan on AI Lessons from the Past Year

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Mark Schneider on IES

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Pete Etchells on Screens and Mental Health

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Paul Carrese on Civic Education on Campus

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Marguerite Roza on ESSER

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David Steiner on Coherence, Content, and the Humanities

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Should Democrats Support Education Savings Accounts?

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Rick Hess and Mike McShane on Getting Education Right

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Angela Watson on Homeschooling

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Tom Richards on the Florence Academy of Art

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Mike McShane on ESAs

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Dylan Wiliam on PISA, Assessment, and De-implementation

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2023 in Review

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Brian Jacob and Vladimir Kogan on School Board Elections

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Brooks Bowden on the Unintended Consequences of Academic Leniency

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Ethan Hutt and Jack Schneider on Grades, Tests, and Transcripts

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Melissa Kearney on the Two-Parent Privilege

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Best Of: Doug Lemov on Cellphones in Schools

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Roland Fryer on Incentives and Opportunity

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Jelani Nelson and Tom Loveless on the California Math Framework

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Laura Meckler on Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity

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Mike Miles on Houston ISD

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David Deming and John Friedman on Highly Selective College Admissions

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Arthur VanderVeen on Assessments

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Ethan Mollick on AI

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Larry Berger on Curriculum

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Katharine Birbalsingh on Michaela

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Rick Hess on The Great School Rethink

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Adam Mastroianni on Strong- and Weak-Link Problems

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Eric Hanushek and Steven Rivkin on Teacher Evaluation and Compensation

97

Christopher Campos and John Deasy on Neighborhood School Choice

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Michael Hartney on Teachers Unions

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Sal Khan on AI in Education

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Student Loan Forgiveness In Court with Beth Akers and Adam White