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May 29, 2024

Holding out Hope for a Left-Right Consensus on Federal Student Lending

…for many programs of questionable value. In fact, in a recent report co-authored with Beth alongside left-of-center scholars at The Century Foundation and Education Counsel, we endorsed the notion that federal graduate…

May 2, 2024

Q&A: A Conservative Vision for Education

…educators and scholars. So, when we say “conservative,” we have in mind a set of values and principles that undergird our approach to education. We couldn’t care less how you…

March 11, 2024

Taking On the College Cartel

…many state scholarships essentially operate as vouchers for low-income students to attend the school, public or private, of their choice. Heavily subsidized federal student loans can also be used at…

March 6, 2024

College or Trade School? How About Both?

…visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development, puts adaptability front and center in his recent book The Career Arts. In doing so, he helps to fight back against…

March 6, 2024

It’s Time to Scrap the Federal Student Loan Program

…their income over 225% of the federal poverty level and balances will be forgiven after as little as a decade. Under Biden’s new rules, Urban Institute scholars have calculated that not even…

March 5, 2024

A Conservative Vision for Education Reform

…public discourse. We don’t imagine that the two of us, a couple of education scholars, can do more than make a small contribution on this count. There is, though, at…

February 22, 2024

Education and the Right

…of Virginia. Afterward, Dr. Hess asked a panel, including Secretary Guidera and AEI scholars, to reflect on the history and meaning of education in the US, paying particular attention to…

December 8, 2023

Biden’s Even Worse Version of “Free College”

…150 percent) and will have all loan balances forgiven after as little as 10 years. Urban Institute scholars Jason Delisle and Jason Cohn calculate that less than one-third of undergraduate borrowers in…

September 18, 2023

West Virginia Budget Cuts Are a Taste of Higher Ed’s Future

…students (54% at WVU) hail from out of state. In addition, nearly a quarter of the students at WVU are eligible for Pell Grants, and many more are “Promise Scholars”…

September 18, 2023

A Degree of Risk

scholarships — is already free.)  When Biden took office, all were eagerly awaiting his move to cancel student debt. He didn’t move on that immediately, though. Biden announced his plan during…