Clapping Back at Homeschooling’s Perennial Foes and Fallacies: Let’s set the record straight about why more families are choosing home education. bit.ly/46vKFyp

Start-Up Culture Comes to K–12 Accreditation. ESA laws can support—or stifle—new schools. bit.ly/4mqHxtD

How Not to Honor Charlie Kirk: The illiberal responses to Kirk’s assassination have grave implications for America’s schools, colleges, and students. bit.ly/4nOOi9X

Nationwide School Choice a Major Breakthrough for Children—but There’s a Catch. Part five of a five-part series on the new federal scholarship tax credit. bit.ly/46rmhhj

For an Effective Scholarship Tax Credit, Feds Must Bend the Knee to States. Part four of a five-part series on the new federal scholarship tax credit. bit.ly/3VX0RUs

Bases Are Loaded. Don’t Get Caught Looking. Part three of a five-part series on the new federal scholarship tax credit. bit.ly/4nz4cou

Passing the Law Was Just the Beginning: Part two of a five-part series on the new federal scholarship tax credit. bit.ly/3I0vbKR

Rulemaking Must Resolve Ambiguities in Federal School Choice Law—and Fast. bit.ly/3VMsakm

The Soft Bigotry of Education Blather: More dismal NAEP results call for a clear, decisive response from the field. What we get is self-serving gobbledygook. bit.ly/46mTKK5

The Vanishing Constituency for Campus Free Speech: Students’ right to self-expression increasingly abridged by left and right. bit.ly/3KefP5S

Pay Attention, Kid! Has the use of digital technology impaired students’ ability to focus? bit.ly/3V4QQ7t

Everyone’s a Hypocrite: Is a lack of principle making us thoughtless, or is thoughtlessness making us unprincipled? bit.ly/4m7BpGK

Better Leaders Make Better Schools: A new book has some ideas for how to get those leaders. bit.ly/3VAh0z2

What AI Revealed About a Top Math Program. Hint: Students’ struggles may be about words, not numbers. bit.ly/3HIakM9

Why Classical Education Excels at Civic Education: Age-old texts reveal the self-sacrifice required to live in a free society. bit.ly/4lSn1lj

Trump’s Civil Rights Agenda Comes for Public Schools: After intense scrutiny of higher education, federal government sets sights on K–12. bit.ly/480izh9

Ninja Lessons: An Impromptu Class in American Character. The cheesy, long-running American Ninja Warrior is everything family television should be. bit.ly/41YlAuq

How Adult Culture Wars Affect Student Learning: When schools are battlefields in political controversies, children are the casualties. bit.ly/45s0yqp

What Parents Really Want: High-quality, safe schools are worth the effort to get kids into them. bit.ly/3HD9bp0

The Education Exchange: Why Not Choose Public Schools? Amid plummeting enrollment in local district schools, a Memphis firm’s marketing model aims to bring families back. bit.ly/4oEfjOo

Paul Carrese, a Professor in the School of Civic & Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University, joins the Education Exchange to discuss Columbia University’s recent settlement with the Trump administration. bit.ly/3URTg9g

What Schools Can Learn from a Summer Swim Test: In school as at the pool, kids will sink if we don’t insist on excellence. bit.ly/46RP3tE

Derrell Bradford, the president of 50CAN, joins the Education Exchange podcast to discuss how states might react to the new federal tax credit scholarship. bit.ly/47gizt1

The Practice Problem: Research shows that students benefit from digital math practice platforms. So why don’t more students use them? bit.ly/4mqrLPL

Behind Penny Schwinn’s Withdrawal as Deputy Secretary at ED: Former Tennessee chief’s retreat reflects deeper fight over K–12 culture wars among MAGA Republicans. bit.ly/4olTbbt

Education Secretary Rachel Maddow Embraces the Trump Doctrine: President Ocasio-Cortez’s ed chief leverages precedents of 2025 set in K–12, higher ed. bit.ly/4m5uDSG

Milton Friedman’s Foresight: The wisdom and wins of a 70-year-old essay that—I admit—I never really liked. bit.ly/4lW5jyi

Ester Fuchs, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science at Columbia University, joins the Education Exchange to discuss the New York City mayoral race, and what it could mean for education in the city. bit.ly/4mb6nhj

Education Next’s Bright Future Online: Why now is the right time for a shift in our publication strategy. bit.ly/46qr1FK

Smart regulations? Why didn’t you say so! Over-regulation and under-regulation of school choice are two sides of the same bad coin. bit.ly/418Mr6J

What Joe Rogan and Ken Burns Can Teach Us About History Class: Large audiences flock to their content, suggesting a hunger for knowledge that schools need to be able to satisfy. bit.ly/46mEcYn

School Enrollment Shifts Five Years After the Pandemic: Public education sees shrinking middle schools and an exodus of wealthy, white, and Asian students. bit.ly/4509yS4

Why Are Right-Wing Trolls Bashing Superman? If you’re looking for old-school values at the movies, you could do much worse than the Man of Steel reboot. bit.ly/44Hf51c

What Can We Learn from the Nation’s Oldest Voucher Program? Scholars draw contrasting lessons from Milwaukee’s 35-year experiment in private-school choice. bit.ly/4lXNw9C

Time to Pay Attention to Louisiana and the “Southern Surge” — Coherence? Professionalism? High academic achievement? Gee, seems worth studying. bit.ly/4kADji0

Making Sense of Mahmoud v. Taylor: The Supreme Court’s ruling likely won’t end classroom content controversies. bit.ly/44Ffuj8

Matthew Lenard, an assistant professor of education leadership and policy studies at Florida State University, is this week's guest on the Education Exchange podcast. bit.ly/44O3gGe

Students Are Anxious about the Future with A.I. Their Parents Are, Too. The fast-growing technology is pushing families to rethink the value of college. bit.ly/3IkI7e8

College Counseling in the Classroom: A low-cost approach improves postsecondary planning and outcomes. bit.ly/4lkiSax

How to Resist the Destructive Self-Indulgence of Teachers on a Soapbox: Four lessons to help educators conscientiously object to the culture wars. bit.ly/4nxJkyK

Parents Win Key Supreme Court Test in Mahmoud v. Taylor: The decision could strengthen the case for universal school choice. What comes next? bit.ly/4lbo7Jx

What D.C. and Dallas Are Proving about Teacher Salaries: Performance-related reforms pioneered in these cities have not caught on in the rest of the U.S. bit.ly/4ljCLP6

The Psychology of Voters Rejecting School Choice: Another slew of choice referendum defeats can be explained by an aversion to losing what’s in hand over gaining something new. bit.ly/3GqhdAY

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The New World Order of Education: A new book about pro wrestling’s uber-villains offers instructive parallels to our education cage matches. bit.ly/40jA73p

Which Party Really Has the Edge on Education? Recent surveys offer contradictory results about whether voters prefer Democratic or Republican governance over schools. bit.ly/3T580kn

Measuring Student Potential—with Genetics: How DNA analysis may be able to predict education attainment. bit.ly/3ZGvUGE

School Choice Should Take the Road Less Traveled: As reformers reach a fork in the road, we already know which way to go. bit.ly/3ZHUkzo

Educators Must Adapt to AI, but They Need Help: OpenAI is missing an opportunity to shepherd higher ed through the most disruptive innovation since the printing press. bit.ly/4jZbIad

The Education Exchange: The Illusion of Local Control of Schools. School boards churn despite uncontested elections, with politics largely detached from student outcomes. bit.ly/4n9B5ci