The Top 20 Education Next Articles of 2025: Evergreen issues in education, along with monumental disruptions to the status quo, draw readers’ interest. bit.ly/4av2mlu

The Top 10 Education Next Blog Posts of 2025: Changes to ED, the reckoning in higher ed, and classroom learning deficits draw readers’ interest. bit.ly/3MRkNXJ

Are Teachers Abandoning Teaching? On the contrary, data show teacher turnover remains consistently low. bit.ly/3MJWL0L

Service or Signaling? The Surge of Youth Nonprofit Founders: The Covid-19 pandemic supercharged entrepreneurship among U.S. high schoolers, especially those with college aspirations. bit.ly/3YDyf3T

So, You Want to Open a Microschool: For aspiring founders who have the will but lack the way to launch their schools, startup partners are there to help. bit.ly/3KyOyfh

When Raids Reach the Classroom: The nationwide crackdown on immigration is devastating student learning and defying a Supreme Court decision meant to protect it. bit.ly/3Yho5Wz

Debunking deBoer’s Education Reform Pessimism: The cultural critic’s absolutist appraisal ignores clear evidence of progress. bit.ly/3KFnBX2

IDEA at 50: The landmark federal law ensured access for students with disabilities. Now it’s time to focus on outcomes. bit.ly/44DcDrU

The Education Exchange: “Charters Are in an Environment Rich with Opportunities.” A charter school expert believes the sector finds itself at a crossroads. bit.ly/4iz4yKG

Sorting Through Reactions to the Department of Ed’s Big Breakup: What should we make of the Trump administration’s recent moves to “return education to the states”? bit.ly/3M9ny6w

The Financial Risk of Declining Enrollment to Midsize Colleges: An analysis of 44 private institutions in New England reveal troubling signs for the viability of all such schools nationwide. bit.ly/3XllIBL

Colleges Are Closing. Who Might Be Next? How machine learning can fill data gaps and help forecast the future. bit.ly/4iqEHok

Learning with Gratitude: As another Thanksgiving approaches, we again should invoke Lincoln’s “mystic chords of memory” bit.ly/4ioh280

What State Policymakers Should Know About Homeschoolers: Misconceptions about who chooses home education—and why—invite burdensome regulations. bit.ly/4peSEaS

The Department of Education: Down but Not Out. Trump team’s push to dismantle the agency faces the same dynamic that nearly derailed its creation. https://bit.ly/4rexkUY

Six Lessons Microschools Can Learn from the Charter Sector: Excitement over the new school model elicits memories of charters in their prime and a chance to reflect on what they got right and wrong. bit.ly/3LT8MQW

A Pragmatic Tutoring Roadmap: High-impact tutoring may deserve the hype, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. bit.ly/4oUYrCZ

The Education Exchange: Does the U.S. Department of Education Help Student Achievement? To answer that question, the agency’s research arm must remain intact. bit.ly/444YCTA

The Grifters Who Plundered Publishing: Scolds, censors, and identity hawks want to ensure your kids don’t read “dangerous” books. bit.ly/47JrLGe

Restarting the Education Reform Conversation: Two EdNext editors walk into a Substack … bit.ly/3LFUZNF

International Students Need Not Apply: Amid shifting attitudes on immigration worldwide, major English-speaking countries are erecting policy barriers to students from abroad. bit.ly/47iDGux

A Fairer Framework for Evaluating Choice: The same demands made on voucher programs should apply to all education models—especially traditional public schools. bit.ly/3WTRHZv

New York City Could Easily Double Teacher Pay. Why Doesn’t It? Today’s salaries are the outcome of dubious decisions, not a lack of taxpayer funds. bit.ly/4owIwdy

Mamdani’s Education Plan: Ask Around, Find Out. To improve New York City’s schools, the mayor-elect should appeal to the grassroots enthusiasm that put him into office. bit.ly/47XegBD

Joseph P. Viteritti, the author of "Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education," is this week's guest on the Education Exchange. bit.ly/43G6Dy3

Helping Kids Slip the Surly Bonds of Leveled Reading: New book touts the critical role teachers play in literacy development. bit.ly/3WtDt1i

Should Schools Teach That America Is Good? Polling finds that teachers, more than the general public, believe schools should. bit.ly/4qwVdXm

Campus Leaders Conveniently Find the Spines They Lost Years Ago: Trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets. College presidents have kicked over a lot of buckets. bit.ly/4no8VJ8

How to Really Know a Thing, Directed by Quentin Tarantino: The filmmaker’s passion and precision about ’70s cinema is worth adopting in education. bit.ly/48hnDho

Unleashing Education Freedom’s True Potential: The school choice movement is winning the fight for universal eligibility. It must now set its sights on universal funding. bit.ly/496sx10

The Wrong Kind of Civic Education: Our perpetual cycle of shutdowns, shakedowns, and deficits is teaching our youth all the wrong lessons about American principles. bit.ly/4qcmX3k

Inside Florida’s Charter Schools for Exceptional Students: How parental choice is reshaping special education in the Sunshine State. bit.ly/4nPYM9r

The Progressive School Reform Voices Crying in the Wilderness: Profiles of the courageous few on the left who championed choice read today like ancient history. bit.ly/43cNuDE

SecEd Maddow Makes College Presidents an Offer They Can’t Refuse. If Trump’s higher ed “compact” was good for the goose, AOC’s will be even better for the gander. bit.ly/4pVBf8p

Are Charter Schools an Endangered Species? The school choice coalition is showing cracks, and charters could be the worse for it. bit.ly/3IuLOP0

No Simple Answers for Kids and Screens: The instinct to regulate children’s digital consumption is admirable. But what if tech isn’t the bogeyman we think it is? bit.ly/42O7s7A

What If Social Science Is a Scam? A new book on the “signing first” scandal should make us question if any research in the field is relevant or reliable. bit.ly/3IJgBHM

Today and tomorrow, the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University is hosting its fourth annual conference on emerging school models. Register to watch online at bit.ly/46ial2N. #EmergingSchools25

Paul E. Peterson interviews Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District, on the Education Exchange podcast. bit.ly/3KgSbpu

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