2020 is practically around the corner

Chester E. Finn, Jr.
No, this has naught to do with the next election. It’s about an immediate target here at Fordham: to generate and publish some...
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Education 20/20: Kay Hymowitz and Nicholas Eberstadt

VIDEO: Education 20/20: Kay Hymowitz and Nicholas Eberstadt on schools' role in parenting, soft skills, and male labor participation

How school choice advances curriculum reform

Robert Pondiscio
Natalie Wexler is a name you should know, if you don’t already. A long-time education journalist, she has tirelessly championed...
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Fordham's most-read articles of 2018

Sophie Sussman
In education, 2018 brought some worthy new beginnings. Policymakers, wonks, and teachers alike realized that large-scale...
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Do Private Schools Serve as Oases in Charter School Deserts?

Last April, we published a report by Andrew Saultz and colleagues highlighting “charter school deserts” across the country, or...
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Gotta Give 'Em Credit

Credit recovery, or the practice of enabling high school students to retrieve credits from courses that they either failed or...
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Reform on the horizon

Andy Smarick
2018 revealed that the education-reform gas tank was empty. This turned out, however, to be not such a big deal because the “...
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Moms and choice: An interview with Inga from San Antonio, Texas

Erika Sanzi
It’s easy for those of us who opine on education to think about—and talk about—school choice as a policy, a concept, and an issue...
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Grade Inflation in High Schools (2005–2016)

Although the vast majority of American parents believe their child is performing at or above grade level, in reality two-thirds...
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Checking Ohio’s educational vital signs: An analysis of the state’s 2017–18 report cards

Since 2005, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute has published annual analyses of Ohio’s state report card data, focusing on district...
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A call to arms on collective bargaining

Dale Chu
The year-end wind-down means new legislative sessions are just around the corner. From early childhood and teacher pay to funding...
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Can states help parents get un-muddled?

Tim Daly
Elliot Regenstein
EdNavigator’s new report, Muddled , describes how schools are providing confusing information to parents, and makes...
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Choice and specialization are important levers for parents of students with disabilities

Lauren Morando Rhim
In a recent commentary on this blog, I expressed concern regarding the growth of specialized charter schools: that is, schools...
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How to help children get on, and stay on, the "success track"

Isabel Sawhill
In my new book, The Forgotten Americans , I revisit what has come to be called “the success sequence.” That’s the idea that if a...
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In charter school deserts, do private schools pick up the slack?

The Education Gadfly
In April, we published a report by Andrew Saultz and colleagues—along with an interactive website —that mapped the locations of “...
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We'll always have policy

Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Recent weeks have seen multiple efforts to declare and prove that the United States has entered a post-policy era, complete with...
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