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March 28, 2025
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…
March 28, 2025
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…
March 24, 2025
Keeping Medicaid Sustainable While Prioritizing the Vulnerable
…p.m. Q&A 12:30 p.m. Adjournment Related Content James C. Capretta on Reducing Health Care Spending James C. Capretta and Robert Doar | One on One with Robert Doar | January 28, 2025…
March 19, 2025
What Can We Learn from Louisiana’s Progress in K–12 Education?
…is now ranked 16th in the country for fourth-grade reading—up from 50th in 2019. In this webinar, Louisiana State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley will join AEI’s Robert Pondiscio and…
February 27, 2025
How Progressive Policy Distorted the Housing Market
…and Robert Ellickson, whose 2022 book, America’s Frozen Neighborhoods, criticizes single-family zoning. My own book, The Poor Side of Town—and Why We Need It, shares his defense of so-called slum housing and…
February 20, 2025
The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated
…David Grusky, Maximilian Hell, Robert Manduca, Jimmy Narang, “The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940.” Replication files available at https://opportunityinsights.org/data/?geographic_level=0&topic=0&paper_id=546#resource-listing. These results were the basis for…
January 3, 2025
Thanks, Joe Manchin
During transitions of power, it’s easy to fixate on a new administration’s nominees and legislative agenda while losing sight of those exiting the political stage. But as the new Congress begins…
December 5, 2024
SNAP and the “Make America Healthy Again” Agenda
…SNAP alone. President Trump’s pick for the DHHS Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has made his views on chronic disease and nutrition very clear, vowing to fix a broken system that incentivizes…
November 14, 2024
Florida, the Forgotten Education-Reform Star
Around the turn of the millennium, Florida was widely regarded as a pace-setter in education reform. Led by then-Governor Jeb Bush, the Sunshine State implemented an outcomes-driven agenda focused on prioritizing literacy, holding…
November 8, 2024
It’s Time for Conservatives to Reclaim Our Place in Ed Reform
As the results of the election came into focus Tuesday night, Chuck Todd made a keen observation on NBC: Republicans’ biggest gains among Hispanic voters came in Florida and Texas, states that…