On August 28, AEI and the Independent Women’s Forum cosponsored a debate on single-sex education. The debaters were Lise Eliot, associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Chicago ...

Hot-button issues like school choice, immigration and state control raised serious questions about education in Tennessee in recent years. After a statewide expansion of school vouchers and a ...

Lately there’s been much hand-wringing punditry about the education “culture wars,” with the mainstream media blaming right-wing extremists for heated fights over social studies, school boards, DEI ...

Over the course of nearly 400 years, public schools have often landed at the center of the most heated debates in the U.S. A look through the history of public schools in the U.S. and Tennessee ...

In 2021, a Tennessee high school teacher named Matthew Hawn was fired after assigning readings about white privilege and discussing race in his class—topics some parents said violated the state’s new ...

Legal challenges, leadership changes, and debates over school policies defined a year of significant developments in public education across the state. Legal battles over religion in schools, disputes ...

It is worth asking how a response billed as the other side of a debate managed to leave every specific claim in my piece untouched. My article was about a structural shift – the state's decision to ...