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April 17, 2024
Fiscal Sanity Please, Senators
…and a ballooning national debt. All it takes is a quick look at our deteriorating fiscal picture to realize this is no time to add billions in new spending. The…
April 11, 2024
The “Case for Curriculum” Is about Reducing Teachers’ Workload
Last weekend, I gave a talk at the U.S. ResearchEd conference in Greenwich, Connecticut, on “The Case for Curriculum,” based on a paper I wrote for Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, which was published this week at The…
April 11, 2024
The Right Has an Opportunity to Rethink Education in America
…connect students to their community, promote patriotism, and be open minded towards faith and family. At the same time, of course, educational outcomes matter mightily, for students and the nation. A…
April 10, 2024
The Political Landmines Buried in the Latest Jobs Report
…natives is down, unemployment among Black or African American individuals is up, and full-time employment has fallen. Employment by US natives is down While up last month, as displayed below,…
April 9, 2024
Biden Knows Student Loan Cancellation Is a Bad Idea
…don’t think I have the authority,” he wisely said. And beyond the question of authority, he seemed to acknowledge the ill-conceived nature of broad-based student loan cancellation when he offered…
April 8, 2024
The $1,000 Tax Hike on Middle-Class Families
When Americans file their taxes in the coming weeks, one group will be singled out for a tax hike: middle-class families with children. This April, a family with three children making…
April 8, 2024
We Still Don’t Know How Much Taxpayers Lost Due to Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Fraud
…concentrated during the program’s first few months when $600-per-week PUC supplements far outweighed guaranteed minimum PUA payments averaging around $165 per week nationwide. Omitting that enormous figure would do more than diminish…
April 5, 2024
What’s Wrong with the US Economy? Anything?
…and adopting a go-slow approach on AI regulation. Sorry to be a Debbie Downer about debt and deficits, but CBO predicts the national debt will nearly double to $48.3 trillion by 2034,…
April 5, 2024
The US Is Failing Substance-Exposed Infants
…and Health: Summary of National Findings,” September 2011, https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUHNationalFindingsResults2010-web/2k10ResultsRev/NSDUHresultsRev2010.htm. US Department of Health and Human Services, “SAMHSA Announces National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) Results Detailing Mental Illness and…
April 3, 2024
School Absenteeism Has Become A Big Problem. But We Can Do Something About It.
…Nat Malkus, who’s tracked the numbers on chronic absenteeism in his widely-referenced Return to Learn Tracker, has reported the situation is even worse in the nation’s poorest and low-achieving communities. In Los Angeles,…