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October 6, 2023
After a Banner Year for School Choice, the Challenge Is to Ensure New Programs Work
…you’re the chief of EdChoice, one of the nation’s leading voices on school choice. I’m curious to hear what you think the school choice landscape looks like right now? Robert: We…
October 4, 2023
Variety Is the Spice
…East Side tenements, whose residents relied on public baths. We need not go that far, but lower-cost arrangements create natural affordability: more units on the same real estate. Adams would…
October 2, 2023
Growing Up in Intact Families Matters More Than Ever
…it conveys growing evidence that family structure matters more than ever for today’s children. In analyzing the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the report…
September 29, 2023
How Well Is Rural America Doing? You’d Be Surprised
…what used to be coal country. She is a daughter of the national heartland that has suffered the worst effects of deindustrialization. This description might remind some of Hillbilly Elegy, a memoir many…
September 26, 2023
Voter Suppression, New York Style
…the idea out of concern about voter fraud. As Hochul sees it, they are continuing a national GOP voter suppression effort “against marginalized communities . . . under the pretense…
September 26, 2023
Former Foster Kids Need More Than Higher Education
…but they don’t really address the heart of the problem. To begin with, nationwide, only about half of youth raised in foster care end up finishing high school. In New York City,…
September 25, 2023
As NYC Reels from Fentanyl Day Care Tragedy, Child Care Overdoses Are More Common Than We Think
…the children are always the victims in these things,” John Walters, former director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy during the George W. Bush administration, said…
September 21, 2023
The Two-Parent Advantage
…odds that more mothers and fathers will give their kids the benefit of being raised by married parents. W. Bradford Wilcox, professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project…
September 20, 2023
Do Two Parents Matter More Than Ever?
…economic success. We used panel data from the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY). The NLSY79 consists of a nationally representative sample of 12,686 men…
September 19, 2023
It’s OK to Like Both Public Schools and School Choice
…one roof. At a time when transportation and communication were limited, educational choice was naturally constrained. Today, those constraints are dusty memories. New tools have made it possible to communicate,…