“Thank God for Mississippi.” That's a phrase people would use when national education rankings came out because no matter how poorly your state performed, you could be sure things were worse in Mississippi. Not anymore. New results on…

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg released a K-12 education plan Saturday that calls for tripling federal Title I funding for students in poverty, a $700 billion child-care and early-education program, an emphasis on wraparound…

Learning in the Fast Lane: The Past, Present, and Future of Advanced Placement (Princeton, 2019), the new book by Chester Finn and Andrew Scanlan, tells the story of the Advanced Placement (AP) program, widely regarded as the gold standard for…

For most families, paying for college means relying on some form of financial aid. Yet last year, 43% of high school seniors didn't submit the one form required for nearly all types of student aid: the Free Application for Federal Student Aid…

The 2018 PISA results are out. Generally, countries scored within an expected range given their past records. Except one. The scores are astonishing for B-S-J-Z, an acronym for the four Chinese provinces that participated: Beijing, Shanghai…