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June 18, 2024
…science of reading is ascendant, with lawmakers in states like Mississippi, Louisiana, and Indiana revamping early literacy instruction according to rigorous, reliable research on how students learn to read. But…
June 10, 2024
Populism has infected both major parties in the United States, leading to policies that previous generations of economic policymakers would immediately recognized as foolhardy and counter-productive. But whether the country…
May 31, 2024
…foster care—an artificial number that agency leaders and policymakers can manipulate to suit their purposes. The entire report is filled with measures and programs that have little to do with…
May 30, 2024
…a “tax cut” 15 times. In reality, the policy was so tilted toward benefit increases it turned the IRS—America’s tax collection agency—into our country’s biggest welfare dispenser. Why are policymakers so eager to cast benefit…
May 9, 2024
…promising loan cancellation. Lawmakers could use those savings for deficit reduction, or to expand financial aid for truly needy students. But lawmakers who want to pursue privatization must avoid several…
May 8, 2024
…for work in order to receive taxpayer-funded welfare benefits.” But policymakers in Washington are, unsurprisingly, out of step with popular opinion. A recent Brookings Institution seminar sunnily titled “Securing the…
May 2, 2024
…vexing, blind-men-and-the-elephant feeling to all this. School district officials and education policymakers will tell you the post-pandemic lesson is that schools need to adapt and be more flexible, appealing, and…
May 2, 2024
…mixed feelings, how do we think parents and policymakers should think about SEL? We’ll put it this way: If a principal is sending home notes reporting that teachers are making…
May 1, 2024
…importance of marriage for economic security and the pursuit of happiness, policymakers and cultural elites must do a better job of making marriage attractive and attainable to ordinary young adults….
April 23, 2024
Birthrates are low and falling in the United States, and commentators and policymakers are starting to realize this is a problem. It’s tempting to assume that this is about affordability: People aren’t…