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CALAMITIES OFTEN DISRUPT THE STATUS QUO. After the influenza pandemic that began during World War I and lasted two years, many Europeans turned to socialism, fascism, and Bolshevism. In the [...]

THE 15TH ANNUAL EDUCATION NEXT SURVEY, conducted in June 2021, yields a host of specific results that reveal one large fact about the current state of public opinion on American [...]

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN has made reopening a majority of K-8 schools for in-person instruction a priority for his administration's first 100 days, with the goal of getting more American students [...]

FOR 14 YEARS, THE EDUCATION NEXT ANNUAL SURVEY has tracked American opinion on education policy. We have gauged peoples views through the throes of the Great Recession, dramatic changes in [...]

THE 2020 EDUCATION NEXT SURVEY reveals a paradox related to what American parents think about the quality of the instruction their children received after schools closed their doors in response [...]

WITH THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN NOW UNDERWAY, education-policy proposals previously at the edge of the political debate are entering the mainstream. On the Republican side, the Trump administration has [...]

THERE'S NO DENYING POLITICAL CLIMATE CHANGE. The past 18 months have seen an enormous swing in the Washington power balance, a shift that has heightened the polarization that has characterized [...]

THE YEAR 2016 MARKS THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY of the Education Next poll on K-12 education policy, offering us the opportunity to take a retrospective look at public opinion on this [...]

THE AMERICAN PUBLIC IS DISPLAYING ITS INDEPENDENT STREAK. Critics of testing will take no comfort from the findings of the 2015 Education Next poll--but neither will supporters of the Common [...]

ON MOST POLICY QUESTIONS, public opinion changes slowly, if at all. But when new issues arise, important shifts can occur before opinion sorts itself into settled patterns. And, on occasion, [...]

The Common Core State Standards initiative (CCSS) seeks to 'provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn' at various grade levels. For some education observers, CCSS [...]

The Common Core State Standards initiative (CCSS) seeks to provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn' at various grade levels. For some education observers, CCSS [...]