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November 15, 2024
Calibration: Making AI a Partner at Work
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the workforce, yet the workers who stand to benefit the most are often the most wary of it. Lower-skilled and less-educated workers view AI as…
November 15, 2024
JD Vance is Right: Reduce the Power of Big Foundations to Help Charity
…percent set in the Tax Reform Act of 1969. That super-low tax rate (especially compared to the standard 15 percent capital gains rate) has encouraged the tax-advantaged growth of private…
November 14, 2024
The Rotting of the College Board
…“chart the future of higher education,” Lemann explains in his new book, Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing. In 1947, the commission issued a report that…
November 13, 2024
How Trump Might Fulfill His Higher-Education Campaign Promises
…then accept applications for new accreditors who will impose real standards on colleges once again and once and for all.” Trump is correct to identify accreditors as the key to…
November 12, 2024
Government Contracting for “America’s Report Card” Is Broken
…was significantly behind industry standards, particularly in adopting new technologies like artificial intelligence for scoring and item development. For instance, while other assessments have used AI-assisted scoring to improve accuracy…
November 1, 2024
Latest Student Loan Cancellation Proposal Could Be Biggest Yet
…owning a collective $740 billion (nearly half the federal loan portfolio) are enrolled in IDR plans. Theoretically, under ED’s standard, most of that money could be forgiven right away. ED…
November 1, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Policy Book Doesn’t Even Mention Immigration
…given Harris’s Aug. 10 “pivot” to take a supposedly firmer stance on immigration. That omission may help explain Harris’s nonanswers and shifting of blame when pressed on immigration during an Oct. 17 interview with…
October 31, 2024
The Republican Marriage Advantage: Partisanship, Marriage, And Family Stability In The Trump Era
…marriage and partisanship? Is the long-standing tie between the Republican Party and marriage fraying in an era when the party’s standard bearer has flouted so many of the institution’s values and virtues? Has the…
October 21, 2024
Dueling Child Tax Credit Proposals: Harris vs. Vance
JD Vance and Kamala Harris have at least one thing in common: proposals to expand the child tax credit (CTC). Currently, the CTC offers households up to $2,000 per child…
October 16, 2024
Kevin Corinth: Addressing Social Capital Poverty in America
Despite improvements in material living standards, the erosion of social connections, civic engagement, and community ties has led to a decline in overall social wellbeing. New research reveals a complex…