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June 9, 2023
…math education. According to the National Assessment for Educational Progress (AKA The Nation’s Report Card), in 2022, only 26% of all eighth-grade students nationwide performed at or above the NAEP Proficient…
June 8, 2023
…and nature of the regulations in parental-choice programs will shape the extent and nature of the landscape of parental choice: If regulators continue to tread lightly, hopefully, most private schools…
June 7, 2023
…and the Hasbro toy company were awarded a $1 million National Science Foundation grant to develop AI pets to help seniors with everyday tasks, such as remembering to take medication. My colleague…
June 7, 2023
…ways, especially for people who face challenges that limit more traditional social opportunities. Brown University and the Hasbro toy company were awarded a $1 million National Science Foundation grant to develop AI…
June 2, 2023
…basically fatherless homes where the mothers were overwhelmed and relying on the priests for help.” There were approximately 60,000 substantiated incidents of child sexual abuse nationwide in 2021, the most…
May 31, 2023
…the introduction of California’s small checks scheme caused “more than half (54%)” of the apparent increase in the national TANF program’s work rate from 2013 to 2015. CRS reports that work rate…
May 31, 2023
…17 percent higher than the citywide average.” Never mind that the average caseload nationwide is between 24 and 31 children. Or that it is well beneath the Child Welfare League…
May 24, 2023
…are natural desires. More specifically, raising children within a loving, monogamous, committed relationship is what most people want. Single mothers living together for support and camaraderie are a plan B,…
May 23, 2023
A new report from the National Academy of Sciences seeks to redefine poverty. The NAS presents the effort as a matter of science: “An accurate measure of poverty is necessary to fully…
May 23, 2023
…difference between failure and long-term success on the job—are in the domain of tacit knowledge. They are second-nature qualities that are rooted in early childhood and develop slowly based on…