Governance and Leadership
Podcast: Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (October 29) about Wake County, North Carolina, where voters earlier this month elected new school board members who have pledged to undo the county’s controversial policy of assigning students to schools based on income (to achieve diversity).
Voters Choose Neighborhood Schools over Socioeconomic Diversity
Podcast: Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (October 29) about Wake County, North Carolina, where voters earlier this month elected new school board members who have pledged to undo the county’s controversial policy of assigning students to schools based on income (to achieve diversity).
Governance and Leadership
Podcast: Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (October 22) about wishful thinking in the education reform community. Do school reformers need to temper their enthusiasm about the reform du jour?
The Nobel Committee Isn’t the Only One Giving Speculative Prizes
Podcast: Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (October 22) about wishful thinking in the education reform community. Do school reformers need to temper their enthusiasm about the reform du jour?
Governance and Leadership
Podcast: Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (October 14) about education politics in Washington, D.C., where Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee recently fired 229 teachers.
Will Michelle Rhee Triumph?
Podcast: Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (October 14) about education politics in Washington, D.C., where Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee recently fired 229 teachers. 
Governance and Leadership
The Persuadable Public
The 2009 Education Next-PEPG Survey asks if information changes minds about school reform.
Governance and Leadership
Evaluation of D.C. Voucher Program
Video: Patrick Wolf talks with Education Next about his "gold standard" evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program and about the likely future of that program.
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Powerful Professors
Research can change the political agenda…if the circumstances are right
Governance and Leadership
Video: Martin West talks with Education Next about what it takes to change public opinion about reforms like charter schools.
Swaying Public Opinion
Video: Martin West talks with Education Next about what it takes to change public opinion about reforms like charter schools. Trending Stories
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The Top 20 Education Next Articles of 2021
The pandemic and race dominate the discussion—for a second year.
The Stubborn Myth of “Learning Styles”
State teacher-license prep materials peddle a debunked theory
How Family Background Influences Student Achievement
Can schools narrow the gap?
What Next for New York Charter Schools?
The era of explosive growth of network-run, “no excuses” charter schools is over. Tentatively emerging: “community-based” charter schools.
To Combat Learning Loss, Schools Need to Overhaul the Industrial-Age Paradigm
The decline in academic gains may be steeper, but it’s not a new phenomenon
