An associate professor at Williams College, Owen Thompson, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Thompson's latest research, which looks into whether gifted and talented programs are also drivers of racial segregation in schools. “Gifted and Talented Programs Don’t Cause School Segregation” is...

An education columnist for the Washington Post, Jay Mathews, joins Education Next editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss Mathews' new book, "An Optimist’s Guide to American Public Education," and The Challenge Index, Mathews' annual ranking of American high schools. An excerpt from the book,...