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June 12, 2025
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
…a conversation between BGI President Matt Sigelman and Dr. Schneider, in which they gave context to the discussion by introducing an upcoming report and website, complete with a web demo….
June 5, 2025
…GOP bill. In the end, Republicans are making a political calculation that, as former Vice President Dick Cheney said, “deficits don’t matter.” This sentiment is bipartisan, history indicates, and Republicans…
May 23, 2025
…matters more for marriage than “her” work. One Harvard study, for instance, showed that a couple’s risk of divorce shot up 33 percent if the husband was unemployed, but rose not…
May 19, 2025
…cover nearly all adults with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty line—presently provide states “with an enhanced federal matching rate (FMAP) of 90% for their expansion populations.”…
May 15, 2025
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
…matter. So does the intergenerational initiative I encountered at Kansas City Public Library. In 2023, they launched a gathering designed to foster connection across generations. College students helped develop the…
May 14, 2025
…and graduation rates weakened by half during the pandemic. That is, a district’s chronic absenteeism rate seems to matter less to its graduation rate than it did before the pandemic,…
May 12, 2025
…policy succeeds if it doesn’t improve classroom instruction. Look at Mississippi and Louisiana, which have posted historic gains in reading and math by focusing on classroom practice, investing in teacher…
May 6, 2025
…their eligibility, and benefits should never be paid before a claimant’s identity has been verified. Matching against prisoner, deceased individual, and other databases should be required, or else federal benefits should not be paid. And states should be allowed…