Common Core

After deliberating for two years, a national commission is pushing to implement social-emotional learning (SEL) in all government schools.

Starting a company from scratch that’s able to compete with the long-entrenched SAT and ACT in the college-entrance testing business sounds like an impossible dream.

Two very different approaches to education reform began to take shape almost three decades ago, just one year apart

You know we are now living in a Bizarro World when Obama-era Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is championing parental activism on a mammoth scale.

Our public schools went through a significant change during the Obama years, a change that was met with an unusual amount of criticism from the public, parents, and concerned education professionals.

As debate rages over possible ways to curb school shootings such the one that occurred recently in Parkland, Florida, increased attention to the mental well-being of young people often pops up as a recommended priority.

Baby PISA has arrived. Are you ready, folks in the neighborhood? Do you have any earthly idea what this newborn may presage for child rearing and society in general?

It is not likely that even an exhaustive review of commentary on education in 2017 could turn up quotes compelling enough to qualify as classic nuggets of wisdom.

Think about all the things you spend money on in life. Why do you pick one product or service provider over another? Is it because government told you to?

At least on Labor Day the damage they can do is limited.

What does high technology hold in store for the education of American children?

Keep your kid’s brain engaged.

Education is in need of strong and capable leaders. On Wednesday, May 24, the Heartland Institute presented a discussion with four such leaders in its Andrew Breitbart Freedom Center.