“Hazim Hardeman’s mother wanted a better school than the family’s North Philadelphia neighborhood could offer her son,” writes Susan...

Choice is good for teachers too, argues Mike Goldstein, founder and former CEO of Match Education in Boston, and former Chief Academic...

One daughter goes to a small, fast-paced STEM-focused school with few arts, language, sports or extracurricular options, Fordham’s Jeff...

Parents don’t choose the most effective schools, according to an analysis of New York City’s high school application system, reports Gail...

Low-income Florida students who used a tax-credit-funded scholarship to attend private school were more likely to enroll in college,...

Parents have high, but not always realistic, hopes for their children’s futures, reports Sarah D. Sparks on Education Week. Nearly 70...

Parents cite “safety concerns” and “a belief that academics elsewhere are better,” they write. MPS “has struggled for years to close the...

Millennials strongly support school choice — including taxpayer-supported tuition vouchers and charter schools — according to surveys by...

Fifty-two percent of Americans oppose “allowing students and parents to choose a private school to attend at public expense” in the 2017...

Public support for charter schools has fallen among Democrats and Republicans, but opposition to school vouchers and tax-credit-funded...

People who exercise choice in educating their own children want black parents to exercise patience, writes Sharif El-Mekki, principal of...

Indianapolis is expanding school choice, writes David Osborne in Education Next. In addition to having a mayor who can authorize charter...

Washington, D.C. students who win the voucher lottery earn lower math scores than lottery losers, especially in elementary school,...

Parents who have a choice tend to choose high-scoring schools! And those schools usually have lots of affluent and middle-class white and...

Many states offer vouchers for students with disabilities, writes Christina Samuels on Ed Week. “Many parents who accept those options...

Thomas Sowell Thomas Sowell was born poor and black in North Carolina in 1930. In a Wall Street Journal interview with Tunku Varadarajan,...

New America’s Kevin Carey lamented “dismal voucher results” in the New York Times, which followed with an editorial calling choice an...

President Trump wants to spend $20 billion on school choice for “disadvantaged youth.”  Families “should be free to choose the public,...

Milwaukee’s school voucher program will save taxpayers half a billion dollars in the long term, writes Jason Crye, executive director of...

Against a nominee for a not-very-powerful Cabinet job, Democrats “went to the barricades,” writes Ross Douthat in a New York Times....