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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…

May 4, 2024

Make Parents Pay for Kids Who Miss School To Curb Chronic School Absenteeism

…enrollment by 25%” per the National Bureau of Economic Research.  Learnfare is the law today in liberal Massachusetts, which shows that such an approach does not have to be draconian. Chronic…

March 14, 2024

The “No Excuses” Model Is Due for a Renaissance

…“dystopian science fiction movie” is a shining example of a luxury belief, the phrase coined by Rob Henderson to connote ideas and opinions held by the affluent or privileged that are…

March 11, 2024

Why Educators Often Have It Wrong About Right-Leaning Parents

…of goodness and malice is exhibiting an authoritarian moral sensibility that’s ill-suited to inclusive leadership in democratic schools. We’ve found that being on the wrong side of conventional wisdom in…

March 5, 2024

A Conservative Vision for Education Reform

…status quo. A custodian needs to recognize when things have stopped working or gotten out of whack. Part of the job is to put things right. But a custodian does…

February 22, 2024

Chronic Absenteeism Could Be the Biggest Problem Facing Schools Right Now

…7 percent to 15 percent among Asian students, from 11 percent to 24 percent among white students, from 16 percent to 36 percent among Hispanic students, and from 18 percent…

February 22, 2024

Education and the Right

…policy. Meanwhile, AEI’s Ian Rowe and Secretary Guidera relied on their experiences in educational leadership to explore how conservative educational ideas can play out in practice. The event concluded with…

January 31, 2024

Long COVID for Public Schools: Chronic Absenteeism Before and After the Pandemic

…students. In 2022, 16 percent of Asian students and 24 percent of white students were chronically absent, compared to 36 percent of Hispanic students and 39 percent of black students….

September 22, 2023

Repairing the Damage Columbia’s Teachers College Did to American Kids Will Take Years

…for the past quarter-century. Dominated but didn’t improve reading ability in any meaningful way, particularly among the city’s black and Hispanic students. About two-thirds of New York’s Asian and white students passed…

August 10, 2023

The Rowe Show

On today’s Remnant—which happens to be more than a year in the making—Jonah’s joined for the first time by Ian Rowe, a senior fellow at AEI and the author of…