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September 6, 2024
The Latest Chronic Absenteeism Numbers
A new school year is beginning, and students are returning to school, but the question this year is how many will return to attending consistently. Chronic absenteeism, the percentage of students missing 10 percent or more of the school year, nearly doubled during the pandemic, surging from 15 percent of K–12 students in 2019 to…
July 15, 2024
It Is Time to Set Goals for Cutting Chronic Absenteeism
Believe it or not, the 2024–25 school year will begin in some parts of the country in less than a month, and students will return to school. Whether they return to school consistently is the most important question at the opening of this school year. Whether schools, districts, and states make chronic absenteeism their top…
May 23, 2024
Biden’s Unending Student Loan Forgiveness Run
On Tuesday, the Biden administration announced $7.7 billion in student debt cancellation for about 161,000 borrowers, equating to about $48,000 per borrower. Compared to what has already been spent on loan forgiveness since the pandemic began, that’s an enormous drop in a gargantuan bucket. AEI’s Student Debt Forgiveness Tracker, which I run, tracks all student loan revenue from…
May 6, 2024
How Much Are You Willing to Spend on Student Loan Forgiveness?
Last Wednesday, the Biden administration announced $6.1 billion in student debt cancellation for over 300,000 borrowers who attended the Art Institutes, a defunct network of for-profit colleges that, according to the Department of Education, defrauded borrowers. This cancellation is generous—all borrowers, regardless of their current economic circumstances, who attended the Art Institutes between 2004 and 2017 will have their…
July 13, 2023
This School Year, Recovery from COVID Learning Loss Went the Wrong Direction
Beleaguered with one report after another about how bad COVID learning loss has been, many Americans think they have a pretty clear picture of the basics of where student learning has been and where it is headed. We know student learning took a huge hit during the pandemic, leaving most students well behind compared to their pre-pandemic peers. Most…