Month: April 2025

Secret Finding from PDK Poll: Support for Vouchers is Rising – by Paul E. Peterson

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The just released PDK survey of U. S. adults reveals an upward shift in public support for vouchers of 12 percentage points over the past four years, with 8 of those percentage points gained since 2015. Meanwhile, voucher opposition fell by 18 percentage points over this same four-year time period. Although this finding is not reported by PDK in this year’s analysis of its find...

EdNext Podcast: Should Laptops Be Allowed in College Classrooms? – by Education Next

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Many teachers wonder whether the costs of allowing laptops in the classroom outweigh the benefits. In this episode, Susan Payne Carter, assistant professor of economics at the United States Military Academy, joins EdNext editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss her new study which found that students whose professors banned laptops and tablets from class outperformed students whos...

When it Comes to School Discipline, Let Parents Choose – by Education Next

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Peter Greene, the author of the aptly named “Curmudgucation” blog, had a post the other day lambasting a classroom management system which, assuming he’s representing it accurately, rates kindergarteners’ behavior on a spectrum from “Democracy” and “Cooperation/Compliance” down to “Bullying” and “Bossing” and—the lowest level—”Anarchy.” The post was vintage Greene, who works in...

In the News: Undergraduate Education Major, Banned for 56 years, Returns – by Education Next

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In the 1960s, the California legislature decided that aspiring teachers would have to major in an academic area other than education, which they believed to be a watered-down degree. But last week, Gov. Jerry Brown reversed that decision, reviving the education major. So explains John Fensterwald in an article for EdSource. The legislation that Brown signed last month will allo...

The Spring 2020 Issue of Education Next Is Here! – by Education Next

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In the cover story, Eliot Cohen argues that to the detriment of American citizens, civic education has been unmoored from history in higher education, where the teachers of tomorrow are trained. In a new research article, Elizabeth Setren reports that English learners and special-education students are more likely to lose their classifications when enrolling in Boston-area char...