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June 20, 2025
What Kids Need—and Adults Need to Know—to Combat the Youth Mental Health Crisis
…30%. If current trends continue, half of Americans will not have a religion by 2070. As scholar Michelle Shain notes, religion is “a powerful predictor of mental health for millennial…
March 21, 2025
Increasing Financial Aid Isn’t the Solution to High College Costs
…college student received an annual financial aid package worth $1,700 (in today’s dollars) from sources outside their institution, including the federal government, states, and private scholarships. By 2019-20, however, the…
May 2, 2024
Q&A: A Conservative Vision for Education
…educators and scholars. So, when we say “conservative,” we have in mind a set of values and principles that undergird our approach to education. We couldn’t care less how you…
April 22, 2024
John Silber, the Campuses Have Need of You
…Kant scholar, who, though impugned for allegedly resisting free speech, engaged intellectually on the issue. In 1986, students at Boston University, much like those at present-day Columbia, set up a…
March 11, 2024
Taking On the College Cartel
…many state scholarships essentially operate as vouchers for low-income students to attend the school, public or private, of their choice. Heavily subsidized federal student loans can also be used at…
March 6, 2024
College or Trade School? How About Both?
…visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development, puts adaptability front and center in his recent book The Career Arts. In doing so, he helps to fight back against…
March 6, 2024
It’s Time to Scrap the Federal Student Loan Program
…their income over 225% of the federal poverty level and balances will be forgiven after as little as a decade. Under Biden’s new rules, Urban Institute scholars have calculated that not even…
March 5, 2024
A Conservative Vision for Education Reform
…public discourse. We don’t imagine that the two of us, a couple of education scholars, can do more than make a small contribution on this count. There is, though, at…
December 8, 2023
Biden’s Even Worse Version of “Free College”
…150 percent) and will have all loan balances forgiven after as little as 10 years. Urban Institute scholars Jason Delisle and Jason Cohn calculate that less than one-third of undergraduate borrowers in…
September 18, 2023
West Virginia Budget Cuts Are a Taste of Higher Ed’s Future
…students (54% at WVU) hail from out of state. In addition, nearly a quarter of the students at WVU are eligible for Pell Grants, and many more are “Promise Scholars”…