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March 19, 2024
Conservatives Distrust Higher Ed—But Still Need Degrees
…confidence in higher ed dropped a whopping 37 percentage points, nearly double the national average, and four times the dropoff for Democrats. Many on the right now hold as self-evident…
March 7, 2024
Growing Congressional Dysfunction Will Worsen Our Fiscal Problems
…notice. One of the few significant bills to clear the House this session is a bipartisan tax bill that advanced only because it includes apparent savings sufficient to cover the cost of its temporary tax cuts and benefit increases. Such politically acceptable savings provisions are naturally in…
March 1, 2024
How the Children’s Bureau Lost Its Way
…look after the Nation’s child crop?” It seems like a lovely sentiment, but the nation’s child crop is considerably larger than it was back then and the percentage of children…
February 22, 2024
Chronic Absenteeism Could Be the Biggest Problem Facing Schools Right Now
Chronic absenteeism has become a grim reality across the nation. Nationwide, chronic absenteeism nearly doubled from 15 percent in 2018 to 26 percent in 2023. How bad are these numbers,…
February 15, 2024
Conservatives Must Seize the Opportunity to Lead on Education. Here’s How…
…social, political, and civic institutions.” Tack on prolonged school closures, campus craziness, and declining test scores, and it’s no great surprise that public confidence in the nation’s schools and colleges…
February 14, 2024
Four States That Are Leading the Charge for Conservative Education
It’s looking like this year’s election will feature a Trump-Biden rematch — a pairing that’s especially frustrating for education, where the nation is wrestling with a raft of real problems: dismal student…
February 9, 2024
Resolving to Learn Lessons from Record Pandemic Fraud
…repeat of staggering taxpayer losses. The coronavirus pandemic tested the nation’s unemployment benefits system more than any previous recession. Lockdowns and mass layoffs starting in March 2020—coupled with unprecedented new…
February 7, 2024
The Past and Future of Education Reform
…when yesterday’s left worked to impose bureaucratic uniformity on the nation’s schools. Rather, we’ll focus on the era of education reform that started in 1983 with the landmark report, A Nation…
January 12, 2024
Congress Shouldn’t Expand Welfare in Return for Corporate Tax Cuts
…the Child Tax Credit and reduced revenue from the business-tax provisions must be fully offset by reduced spending elsewhere. The national debt recently surpassed $34 trillion. Now is not the…
January 11, 2024
Tax Credit Nation — Politicians Are Casting New Spending As ‘Tax Cuts,’ Hiding Their True Cost
With the national debt soaring past $34 trillion, liberal politicians hoping to expand the federal leviathan face a conundrum. How can they convince Americans wary of the effects of runaway…