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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…
June 27, 2024
New Legal Roadblocks for Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Crusade
Last fall President Biden announced his “Plan B” for student loan cancellation after the Supreme Court ruled his initial efforts unconstitutional. Plan B, named the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan,…
June 18, 2024
A Unified Theory of Education
…science of reading is ascendant, with lawmakers in states like Mississippi, Louisiana, and Indiana revamping early literacy instruction according to rigorous, reliable research on how students learn to read. But…
May 29, 2024
Holding out Hope for a Left-Right Consensus on Federal Student Lending
…Earlier this month, the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity’s (FREOPP) Preston Cooper and Beth hosted a webinar to discuss a recent report the three of us co-authored on the potential for expanding the…
May 9, 2024
FAFSA Flop: What Is Going On with the 2024–25 Cycle?
…the Ball on FAFSA Beth Akers | AEIdeas | February 14, 2024 Biden Administration Continues to Fumble the New Financial Aid Application Beth Akers | AEIdeas | January 31, 2024…
May 2, 2024
A New Lost Generation: Disengaged, Aimless, and Adrift
…vexing, blind-men-and-the-elephant feeling to all this. School district officials and education policymakers will tell you the post-pandemic lesson is that schools need to adapt and be more flexible, appealing, and…
May 2, 2024
Q&A: A Conservative Vision for Education
…mixed feelings, how do we think parents and policymakers should think about SEL? We’ll put it this way: If a principal is sending home notes reporting that teachers are making…