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December 4, 2024

Back to Basics: America’s Founding, Civics, and Self-Government in K-12 Curricula

…and Leadership, University of North Carolina; Brian V. Kennedy, International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers; and Michael Weiser, Chair of the Board of Directors, Jack Miller Center. The panel…

December 2, 2024

Reforming State Authorization of Colleges to Boost Competition and Lower Tuition

…entry such as unnecessary patents, occupational licensure, and certificate-of-need laws in health care. However, some of the most daunting—and underappreciated—barriers to entry in the United States constrain competition in higher…

November 21, 2024

A Consensus on Common-Sense Education Reform

…economist Michael Strain, here at AEI.) The report is short, only about 30 pages, and quite readable. If you have an interest in possible solutions to some of the biggest…

October 16, 2024

11 Ways the Federal Government Is Making It More Difficult to Access Career Pathways 

Key Points  The federal higher education and workforce systems live in mortal fear of a single dollar being wasted by those outside their reach, but when insiders waste billions of…

October 9, 2024

How to Make Millionaire Teachers

The very best teacher in America makes about the same salary and teaches about the same number of students as the very worst teacher. This is because we treat educators…

October 3, 2024

The New “Old Girls Network” in the American Workplace

…compared to the successes of college-educated women. This gulf in workplace experiences follows the pattern of strained gender relations in other areas of American life, culture, and politics. These differences…

September 23, 2024

The Last Bipartisan Policy

Name a policy that Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Ron DeSantis, and Gavin Newsome all support. And I don’t mean something they are passively allowing or a shallow endorsement of motherhood…

June 18, 2024

A Unified Theory of Education

…worthy of this great nation. That’s where a unified theory just might help. Frederick M. Hess is the director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Michael Q….

June 15, 2024

Reimagining Early Education

For years, conservatives have dropped the ball on early childhood education policy, almost entirely ceding the playing field to the left. This has led to programs that lack guidance from…

May 9, 2024

FAFSA Flop: What Is Going On with the 2024–25 Cycle?

Event Summary On May 9, AEI hosted a panel conversation with AEI’s Beth Akers and Michael Brickman, Karen McCarthy of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, and Mark…