Research & Analysis
Explore the data-driven side of education choice. Our research, polling, and demographics section offers valuable insights backed by facts and figures.
Nation’s Report Card documents continued academic decline
The NAEP released 2024 results last week, and the results continued to disappoint, especially for disadvantaged student groups. While scores began to recover among high end performers, the decline continued among lower performers, as can be seen in the eighth grade math chart below: Rick Hess summarized the bad news:... READ MOREGrowth vs. decline
The Brennan Center has released projections of congressional reapportionment following the 2030 Census. The Brennan Center projects Florida and Texas to be the big winners, with each state gaining four...
READ MOREProPublica goes full Dale Gribble
The television classic “King of the Hill” included a character known as Dale, who despite being a conspiracy theorist is entirely oblivious to the fact that that his wife is...
READ MOREIvy League Plus: Destructive or overrated?
David Brooks has a piece in the Atlantic called How the Ivy League Broke America: The meritocracy isn’t working We need something new that is generating a lot of...
READ MOREFlorida ranks No. 5 nationally for children’s education
The Annie E. Casey Foundation's Kids Count report is a closely watched annual snapshot, and it offers plenty of reason to dispel the naysaying and "doomer" narratives about public education in the Sunshine State.
READ MOREWhat do parents want? It’s not hard to decipher
EdChoice retained the polling firm Morning Consult to survey a nationally representative sample of more than 1,500 American parents in early November 2023 about what they want from schools and...
READ MOREEducation major ROI shows the colleges of education should RIP
New data suggest majoring in engineering or math or even English is probably a better idea than majoring in education, even if you want to teach.
READ MOREESA and the bucking of the booted and spurred
Tyton Partners provided an update on the status of Education Savings Accounts programs: Since being introduced in Arizona, ESAs have been enacted in 12 additional states; in six states, the...
READ MOREWhat teachers unions can learn from NBA players
Over the past two decades, taxpayers across the country have increased their investment in public education. One surprising group hasn’t seen much benefit from this spending growth: Public-school teachers. A...
READ MOREWhat parents want, and how to make sure they can get it
A new report by EdChoice uses parent surveys to identify what parents want from their schools. The whole thing is worth reading, but I wanted to highlight two key points...
READ MOREFlorida sets new education choice records as 1.7 million students choose
A record-setting 1.7 million K-12 students in Florida attended a school of choice last year, an increase of more than 42,000 over the year prior. In all, 49% of Florida’s...
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