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February 23, 2023
Distance to 100: An Alternative to Racial Achievement Gaps
…the achievement gap is the most important civil rights issue we face. Unfortunately, our five-decade obsession with closing achievement gaps has yielded little progress. Four leading education researchers including Stanford…
February 22, 2023
Unlocking the Future
…among underserved children. Policy-makers and practitioners on the left and right came together to establish clear academic expectations for students, assess student progress toward achieving those standards and use the…
February 14, 2023
Brave New Technology
…need to remember that while this may be hard, the growth and rising living standards it promises will probably bring great benefits to our kids and many generations beyond them….
December 9, 2022
“Automatic Stimulus”: How It Would Have Increased the Record Unemployment Benefits Paid During the Great Recession and Pandemic
…long-standing pattern of contemporary lawmakers determining when emergency benefits should be paid, some have proposed instead using unemployment rate “triggers” in the future to automatically turn and keep on such…
November 28, 2022
Public School Instructional Offerings and Enrollment Changes: Evidence from Two Years After the Pandemic
…on public school enrollment. From a descriptive standpoint, we find that public school districts that offered the most remote instruction in the 2020–21 school year saw the largest declines in…
February 23, 2022
The Case Against Universal Free Lunch
…that pregnant pigs be provided enough space to stand and turn around—a law that yielded histrionic headlines, such as “Bacon May Disappear in California.”12 I’d love to be proved wrong,…
July 2, 2021
Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
…rates to the public. Adopt an absolute standard—and potentially a purely relative standard—for adjusting poverty thresholds over time. An absolute standard should update thresholds based on the Chained Consumer Price…