As the educational movement is embraced by the religious right and seen by others as a Trojan horse for Christian nationalism, its leaders seek to transcend political associations
How progressive education made my peers morally confused
And Mayor Eric Adams is following the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s model in making that distinction clear
How the Telluride Association Summer Seminar designed to teach teenagers about free-thinking and communal self-determination turned into an ideological ‘Lord of the Flies’
Yeshivas are being attacked for their lack of careerism while critics ignore what religious families actually want and get from their schools
A former public school teacher documents the profound betrayal of America’s students
Debates between New York state and its Hasidic community about school choice offer a harbinger of what’s to come nationwide
The push for social-emotional learning brings managerial nihilism and corporate profiteering into the classroom under the cover of helping kids
New ‘discoveries’ of the harm caused by school closures are as disingenuous and politically motivated as the original policies themselves
A law mandating the course for all public high school students is based on two unreplicated studies that distort the data
Conversations with some of California’s most vulnerable families show they have become the targets of increasingly autocratic officials entrusted with the education of their children
It would be a step in the right direction. But more is needed to replace America’s antiquated academic sweatshops with a modern enterprise.
At the center of debates about parental control and home-schooling is a nearly 50-year-old Supreme Court ruling about the Amish
An excerpt from the new book ‘An Inconvenient Minority’ explores how the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test propelled generations of Jewish, Asian, Black, and Hispanic New Yorkers to success, and why it’s now being dismantled
deBoer’s new book on the failures of American education takes aim at the role of the educated elite—and misses the mark
Ethnic studies consultants ride a wave of profits across America’s schools and corporate workplaces
A new survey shows that a remedy American Jews have put their faith in for the past century may now be spreading the disease
Bitter, racially divisive battles over admissions to elite schools, taking place across the United States, reflect the limits of education policy