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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…

April 24, 2025

Not Local Enough: The Montgomery County Public Schools Case

The Supreme Court heard arguments this week in Mahmoud v. Taylor, in which parents from Montgomery County, Maryland, challenged the…

April 4, 2025

How One State Improved Its NAEP Scores

The most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress results had a lot of bad news,…

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:…

March 24, 2025

The Student Loan Payment Pause Was a Catastrophic Mistake

In March 2020, as America shut down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress passed…

March 21, 2025

Increasing Financial Aid Isn’t the Solution to High College Costs

Harvard University recently announced it would make tuition free for students from families earning below $200,000—but for…

March 20, 2025

To Transform K-12 Education, the Trump Administration Should Measure What Matters

When the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) was first administered in 1969, nearly nine out of…

March 14, 2025

A Historic Opportunity for Higher Education Reform 

Once a sleepy policy area on the national scale, higher education is now a central…

March 12, 2025

Why Alabama Needs The Success Sequence

“The American Dream is beyond my reach.” This is increasingly the view that many young…

February 24, 2025

A Glut of MBAs?

It’s all about the skills, not the credentials. You know the labor market times are…