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December 17, 2024
Make America Smart Again: The Jeopardy Test for Graduation
…last month to abolish a similar graduation requirement, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, whose adoption in 1994 coincided with that state consistently becoming the nation’s top National Assessment of Education Progress performer,…
December 17, 2024
Industrial Policy and Deficits: Dark Clouds for Democratic Capitalism
…their supply is diversified away from adversarial nations or geopolitical hotspots. Coordinating with allies would allow production to be relocated to nations that are best situated to produce. It is…
December 11, 2024
The Often Overlooked Link Between Drug Use and Family Decline
…to a recent study, the number of Black people and Native Americans in this category has been growing while the number of white people has been going down. A study published in…
December 11, 2024
US Students Best Other Nations—in Achievement Gap Growth
…other nationally representative assessments. What I want to look at today is whether these trends parallel what is happening in other countries. TIMSS is taken by hundreds of thousands of…
December 9, 2024
TIMSS Shows the Bottom Is Falling Out for US Test Scores
Last week’s release of 2023 scores from the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)—an international assessment measuring fourth and eighth graders in math and science—offers a fresh look at…
December 5, 2024
SNAP and the “Make America Healthy Again” Agenda
…the past. Absent a reorganization, the USDA Secretary will continue to oversee the nation’s nutrition assistance programs while also overseeing agriculture policy. President Trump nominated Brooke Rollins for this role, emphasizing her agriculture credentials…
December 5, 2024
More High-Skill Immigration Is Popular. Let’s Act on That
…companies to lose skilled workers.” When it comes to high-skill immigration, what does pro-growth reform look like? This from the “Toward a Potential Grand Bargain for the Nation” report out…
December 5, 2024
Inflation Reduction Act Offers a General Lesson against Industrial Policy
…since the end of the Cold War. The US’s embrace of industrial policy has created a permission structure for other nations to do the same. Unsurprisingly, South Korea and the…
December 4, 2024
Shifting Patterns of Social Interaction: Exploring the Social Life of Urban Spaces Through A.I.
Abstract We analyze changes in pedestrian behavior over a 30-year period in four urban public spaces located in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. Building on William Whyte’s observational work from…
December 2, 2024
The Pursuit of Happiness Starts with Families: A Conversation Between Brad Wilcox and Gov. Spencer Cox
…the nation in GDP growth, led the nation in population growth in the last census, and I could go on and on. People are trying to figure out why —…