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October 11, 2024
Let’s Open the Black Box of Selective College Admissions
The aftermath of the 2023 Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (SFFA) has put a spotlight on the capriciousness of admissions practices at selective colleges. In SFFA, the Supreme…
October 9, 2024
Two Cheers for California’s Ban on Legacy Admissions
…Policy Institute’s Rick Kahlenberg and I observed last year, it’s a classic case of interest group politics. “An ardent minority of college officials and alumni groups love them,” we wrote, “the former…
June 18, 2024
A Unified Theory of Education
…worthy of this great nation. That’s where a unified theory just might help. Frederick M. Hess is the director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Michael Q….
June 15, 2024
Reimagining Early Education
For years, conservatives have dropped the ball on early childhood education policy, almost entirely ceding the playing field to the left. This has led to programs that lack guidance from…
May 2, 2024
Q&A: A Conservative Vision for Education
We just published a new book, Getting Education Right: A Conservative Vision for Improving Early Childhood, K–12, and College. As the title makes clear, we unabashedly make the case for a conservative approach…
April 11, 2024
The Right Has an Opportunity to Rethink Education in America
The casual observer can be forgiven if it looks like both the left and the right are doing their best to lose the debate over the future of American education….
April 3, 2024
School Absenteeism Has Become A Big Problem. But We Can Do Something About It.
Chronic absenteeism has become a pressing challenge for the nation’s schools. The stories are ubiquitous, featuring headlines like last week’s New York Times’s front-pager “Why School Absences Have ‘Exploded’ Almost Everywhere.” In…
March 28, 2024
Finally, a Chance to Start Getting Higher Ed Right
“Finally.” It’s a word those who’ve spent years sounding the alarm about the plight of higher education have been saying a lot lately. Finally, the thought-policing and groupthink have become…
March 26, 2024
Reading Scores Have Plunged Since the Pandemic. What This Senator Wants to Do About That
…mind. Here’s what he had to say. —Rick Rick: Senator, you’ve had a long-standing interest in literacy and dyslexia in particular. Can you talk a bit about why this issue is…
March 11, 2024
Taking On the College Cartel
The venerable economist Milton Friedman once said, “Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change.” That’s the impulse behind Winston Churchill’s admonition (later famously echoed by Obama’s chief of staff Rahm…