September 24, 2025
How Can Education Savings Accounts Serve Students with Special Needs?
As education savings account (ESA) laws have been adopted by a number of states in the past…
September 23, 2025
America’s Distorted Market for Higher Education
In the United States, K-12 education is mostly run as a government service. By contrast,…
September 23, 2025
America’s Distorted Market for Higher Education
In the United States, K-12 education is mostly run as a government service. By contrast,…
September 3, 2025
How Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Can Fix the Student Loan Crisis
When Congress passed President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” in July, one of its most profound…
August 22, 2025
The Southern Surge in Education
It’s been a grim stretch for America’s schools. Reading and math achievement are in a decade-long…
August 21, 2025
The Big Beautiful Fix for Graduate School Borrowing
When policymakers and the public talk about student debt, they usually picture undergraduates: young people…
May 15, 2025
The Pandemic Is Over. It’s Time for Schools to Get the Message.
More than five years after the covid-19 pandemic began, the havoc it wreaked on American…
May 7, 2025
Republicans Unveil Plan to Rein in Student Debt and Waste in Higher Education
In a significant development for higher education policy, House Republicans have unveiled a sweeping proposal to reform…
May 5, 2025
What’s in House Republicans’ Student Loan Overhaul
House Republicans have introduced a comprehensive student loan overhaul as part of the broader budget reconciliation process….
April 30, 2025
The Student Loan Bubble Is about to Pop
At the outset of the covid-19 pandemic, federal student-loan borrowers won what appeared to be…
April 25, 2025
Trump Administration Announces Plan to Get Borrowers Paying Student Loans Again
The U.S. Department of Education announced on Monday that it would resume involuntary collections of defaulted federal student…
April 24, 2025
It’s About Time: Bring Back Those Student Loan Collections
This week, the Department of Education announced that on May 5 it will begin collecting on defaulted…