Welcome to Our Research Archive
Search and filter by content type, issue area, author, and keyword
- ✕ Clear Filter
- Artificial Intelligence (1)
- Child Welfare (44)
- Child Welffare (1)
- Civil Society (35)
- Economic Opportunity (1)
- Economic Security (104)
- Economic Well-Being (1)
- Education (204)
- Family (113)
- Featured (5)
- Fmaily (1)
- Fraud (2)
- Housing (107)
- Housing Supply (1)
- Marriage (1)
- Safety Net (222)
- Social Capital (43)
- Social Captial (1)
- Tax & Transfer Policies (1)
- tax credit (2)
- Welfare (2)
- Workforce (113)
- Workforce Development (3)
- Workfrce (1)
- Workfroce (1)
- Workorce (1)
- ✕ Clear Filter
- Beth Akers (36)
- Brent Orrell (5)
- Frederick M. Hess (40)
- Howard Husock (3)
- Ian Rowe (10)
- James Pethokoukis (1)
- John Bailey (2)
- Mark Schneider (9)
- Matt Weidinger (1)
- Max Eden (3)
- Michael Barone (1)
- Michael Brickman (2)
- Naomi Schaefer Riley (13)
- Nat Malkus (21)
- Nicholas Eberstadt (1)
- Preston Cooper (37)
- Ramesh Ponnuru (2)
- Robert Cherry (1)
- Robert Pondiscio (18)
- Sally Satel (1)
- Samuel J. Abrams (1)
- Scott Winship (1)
- Timothy P. Carney (1)
- W. Bradford Wilcox (2)
- Yuval Levin (2)
June 20, 2025
What Kids Need—and Adults Need to Know—to Combat the Youth Mental Health Crisis
Starting this fall students in New York will join those in other states like California in not being able to access cellphones during the day. These bans are the culmination…
June 20, 2025
Senate Embraces “Do No Harm” for Higher Education
The Hippocratic Oath is coming for higher education. Last week, Senate Republicans released a package of higher education reforms that includes a “do no harm” standard for colleges: Degree programs would be…
June 16, 2025
Accountable for Outcomes: We Need Evidence-Based Funding Models
Key Points With over 1.1 million credentials available but only 12 percent delivering significant wage gains, learners face a chaotic marketplace that lacks effective oversight. Top-decile credentials yield annual wage…
June 12, 2025
The Senate’s Higher Education Reforms Are Strong (But Could Be Stronger)
Senate Republicans recently unveiled their suite of higher education reform proposals, part of a broader tax-and-spending bill making its way through Congress. The package is strong: it would impose commonsense limits on…
June 12, 2025
Lingering Absence in Public Schools: Tracking Post-Pandemic Chronic Absenteeism into 2024
Key Points Chronic absenteeism spiked during the pandemic and remains a serious problem. In 2024, rates were 57 percent higher than they were pre-pandemic and only 2 percentage points lower…
June 5, 2025
Measuring the Value of Nondegree Credentials
Event Summary On June 5, AEI’s Mark Schneider, in partnership with the Burning Glass Institute (BGI), hosted an event to discuss the value of nondegree credentials. The first discussion was…
May 28, 2025
The Challenge: A Complex and Inefficient Student Loan System
OP_Akers_The-Challenge-A-Complex-and-Inefficient-Student-Loan-System-1Download…
May 22, 2025
Course Correction: Rebuilding The Federal Student Loan System After Biden’s Mismanagement
Key Points The Biden administration repeatedly refused to transition student borrowers back into repayment after the COVID-19 payment pause and unsuccessfully tried to cancel student debt en masse several times….
May 15, 2025
The Pandemic Is Over. It’s Time for Schools to Get the Message.
More than five years after the covid-19 pandemic began, the havoc it wreaked on American students and schools is alarmingly clear by nearly every measure. But there is one glaring…
May 14, 2025
Graduation in the Time of COVID: The Weakened Relationship with Chronic Absenteeism
Key Points Chronic absenteeism soared during the COVID-19 pandemic, but counterintuitively, graduation rates over the same period also rose. Our conservative estimates show the relationship between chronic absenteeism and graduation…