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June 20, 2025
What Kids Need—and Adults Need to Know—to Combat the Youth Mental Health Crisis
…in classrooms but in young adult literature, such as the best-selling dystopian “Hunger Games” series, about teens who must fight one another to the death. Another popular book, “The Hate U…
May 7, 2025
Republicans Unveil Plan to Rein in Student Debt and Waste in Higher Education
…However, for the proposal to move forward, the Senate parliamentarian must rule that all provisions meet the requirements for inclusion under reconciliation rules—namely, that each change has a direct impact on…
May 5, 2025
What’s in House Republicans’ Student Loan Overhaul
…programs like medicine have a limit of $150,000. These loans are currently unlimited. Annual loan limits are equal to the median cost of attendance for similar programs nationally, minus any…
March 20, 2025
To Transform K-12 Education, the Trump Administration Should Measure What Matters
…members live with the student, allowing children to choose multiple answers from the universe of mother, father, stepmother, stepfather, foster mother or other female legal guardian, or foster father or…
December 17, 2024
Make America Smart Again: The Jeopardy Test for Graduation
…Wasteland or the novel War and Peace? These are not trivia questions — the answers show preparation for understanding American race relations, the ennui of contemporary civilization, and the history of Russian warfare….
December 11, 2024
Some College Graduates Are Taking Lower-Paying Jobs
…assistants held a bachelor’s degree—but by 2023 that fraction had risen to 35%. This is especially concerning because secretaries earn a median salary of $46,010—below the median for all workers. Research from…
November 14, 2024
The Rotting of the College Board
…identifying lower-income students and underrepresented minorities who will thrive. These students do not score as high on average as students from affluent communities or white and Asian students. But a…
October 25, 2024
How Workforce Education Can Boost Earnings and Fill Jobs
…the state offers programs in a diverse range of industries. Other popular courses include training to enter the healthcare field, in roles such as clinical medical assistant or phlebotomy technician.…
October 11, 2024
Let’s Open the Black Box of Selective College Admissions
…black and Latino first-year enrollment plunged, while the number of first-year Asian-American students spiked. At Wellesley, black student enrollment fell by nearly half and that of Latino students by almost a third. At…
June 18, 2024
A Unified Theory of Education
…education. In the early 1900s, progressives sought to bureaucratize K-12 into what historian David Tyack termed “the one best system.” In the 1920s, Oregon progressives (along with the anti-Catholic Ku…