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March 14, 2025
A Historic Opportunity for Higher Education Reform
…policy divides between mainstream Democrats and Republicans used to be trivial. For example, 10 years ago, Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) proposal to lower student loan interest rates to 3.9 percent seemed radical. It was…
February 24, 2025
A Conservative Vision for Higher Education Reform
…point in the national discourse on higher education policy. On April 22, 2019, Senator Elizabeth Warren, vying for the Democratic nomination for president, announced that as president she’d cancel up…
January 24, 2025
Testing Theories of Why: Four Keys to Interpreting US Student Achievement Trends
…of test takers. Since 2011, the US has experienced the highest absolute achievement gap growth internationally. Adult performance trends on international assessments during this period reflect those of students, suggesting…
January 24, 2025
Testing Theories of Why: Four Keys to Interpreting US Student Achievement Trends
…of test takers. Since 2011, the US has experienced the highest absolute achievement gap growth internationally. Adult performance trends on international assessments during this period reflect those of students, suggesting…
January 6, 2025
Congress Can Block Student Loan Cancellation—Forever
…extend the 2017 tax cuts, increase funding for immigration enforcement, and pursue other priorities. Lawmakers will need to find budget offsets to pay for all this. Most of the savings…
December 11, 2024
Some College Graduates Are Taking Lower-Paying Jobs
…Employers will also need to address bias in hiring practices against people without college degrees. Policymakers must focus on creating more non-college pathways for these individuals to develop and prove…
November 14, 2024
The Rotting of the College Board
…section of the test.” Divvying up the test into easier and more difficult parts, he found that “Black test takers overperformed on the hard part and underperformed on the easy…
November 12, 2024
The National Assessment of Educational Progress Recompete: Is It Real Change or Lipstick on a Pig?
…but policymakers must do more to encourage competition and ensure transparency for the new likely $1 billion NAEP contract. Read the PDF. The American government runs on contracts between government…
October 25, 2024
How Workforce Education Can Boost Earnings and Fill Jobs
…Pell Grants began to cover the cost. Still, the instinct to level the playing field between traditional higher education and workforce training is a good one, and policymakers ought to…
August 1, 2024
Financing Graduate Education: Next Steps for Federal Policy
Key Points In the interest of students and taxpayers, it is time for bipartisan and commonsense graduate financing policy reform. This issue’s complexity and importance demand a comprehensive solution that…