School lunch data was an inaccurate measure of student poverty, even before the shift to universal eligibility, write Ishtiaque Fazlul,...

The best predictor of children's risk of severe neglect and abuse is not poverty, writes Naomi Schaefer Riley in City Journal. It's drug...

Ohio's EdChoice vouchers enable 60,000 students from low-income families to leave district schools for alternatives. The program has led...

Fewer people are living in poverty, but not because they're earning more, writes Jon Baron on The Hill. We're doing better at giving...

Naomi Schaefer Riley hears an "anti-adoption drumbeat" from the media. "In the wake of the Dobbs decision, the Left wants to make sure...

Based on yesterday's oral arguments, the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority appears likely to reject race-based affirmative...

Sixty-three percent of Americans say colleges shouldn't consider race in admissions, according to a Washington Post poll. Blacks are...

Without SAT or ACT scores, deciding who to admit is "chaotic, admissions officers told Kelly Slay, a Vanderbilt researcher. It's hard to...

In A Tale of Two High Schools, Renu Mukherjee, a policy analyst at the Manhattan Institute, looks at San Francisco's Lowell High School,...

The Kalamazoo Promise, which guarantees college scholarships to all graduates of the Michigan city's schools, has increased college...

Teachers, counselors and other school staff are required to report suspected child abuse and neglect. In New York City, from August 2019...

The "exodus of families from traditional public-school districts is a warning message," writes Jessica Levin on EdPost. Focusing...

After flirting with Marxism at Oxford, Katharine Birbalsingh began teaching in a state school with a "holistic, child-centered approach,"...

Math scores for Black nine-year-olds dropped by 13 points compared to 2020, representing a year's worth of learning, reports the...

TANSTAAFL -- "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch" -- still applies, if you remember the taxpayers, but schools in some states will...

"Diverse by design" schools are catching on, writes Kate Rix on the Hechinger Report. In Dallas, "50/50" schools try enroll an even mix...

Reading and math scores have increased significantly in the last 50 years -- and achievement gaps by race and family income have narrowed...

Upward mobility is a matter of who you know, conclude the authors of a newly published study on social capital. (See the data here.)...

Free and reduced lunch. Students across the country face the prospect of “lunch shaming” when their parents don’t pay whatever lunch bill...

Milwaukee’s low-performing Carver Academy got more money, new leadership and “five years of attention from Milwaukee’s best minds in...