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Op-Ed
When Washington Picks Up the States’ Tab, Waste and Fraud Follow
…funds, when someone else picks up the tab, there are simply fewer incentives to control spending. Robert Westbrooks, a former federal inspector general, pointedly asked in his testimony, “Why are Federally Funded,…
Op-ed
Compiling My Work on Work Incentives
…much cleaner than before. One new feature of the site is the “Spotlight on Work Incentives” page. There we’ve highlighted three previously published pieces each by Kevin Corinth, Robert Doar,…
Op-Ed
What Harvard’s Raj Chetty Overlooks About Upward Mobility
…long-term economic gains for children. Any federal policy — in this case, the Clinton-era HOPE VI program to demolish crime-ridden public housing such as Chicago’s Robert Taylor Homes, the nation’s largest —…
Op-Ed
A Bipartisan Step Toward Smarter College Accountability
Rarely do Washington policymakers find common ground on higher-education reform. Conservatives often call for discipline in how taxpayer dollars are spent. Progressives typically focus on protecting students from predatory institutions…
Blog Post
AI Has Come for K–12 Education
…offload the hard work to ChatGPT. My colleague Robert Pondiscio has a complementary warning about the “illusion of learning.” My former colleague Andy Smarick is also worried, arguing that AI’s convenience is…
Op-Ed
The Golden Age of Public Housing—and Why It Didn’t Last
…to 800,000 public housing units. It was a time recalled fondly and nostalgically by the one-time residents of public housing projects such as Chicago’s Robert Taylor Homes, the Pruitt-Igoe high-rises…
Report
Graduation in the Time of COVID: The Weakened Relationship with Chronic Absenteeism
…137–65, https://doi.org/10.1162/ edfp_a_00207. 2. Michael A. Gottfried, “Chronic Absenteeism in the Classroom Context: Effects on Achievement,” Urban Education 54, no. 1 (2015): 3–34, https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085915618709; Robert Balfanz and Vaughan Byrnes, “The Importance of…
Blog Post
To Improve Student Outcomes, Focus On Classroom Practice, Not Policy
Last week, I had the privilege of delivering keynote remarks at Marquette University Law School’s Lubar Center for a conference focused on redirecting K-12 education reform toward classroom teaching. Inspired…
Op-Ed
Cracking the Code Behind Dismal 8th Grade Reading Scores
The most recent round of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results delivered a familiar gut punch: Just 30 percent of eighth graders in the United States read at or above the…
Op-Ed
Unfreezing New York’s Projects
…unlocked front doors. The buildings’ conditions are an insult to the legacy of their namesakes: Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat; and John Lovejoy Elliott, a Progressive-era reformer and founder…
Blog Post
Trump Administration Touts Work Requirements in Reconciliation Bill
…New York Times op-ed (“Trump Leadership: If You Want Welfare and Can Work, You Must”) published today drives this point home. Authored by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Center for Medicare and Medicaid…
Op-Ed
Alexis de Tocqueville and the Art of Association
…diminished markedly, so, in turn, has the power of these associations to help form citizens capable of sustaining democracy in America. In “Bowling Alone,” Robert Putnam famously traced Americans’ declining demand for…