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April 11, 2025

How The Trump Administration Can Address The Student Loan Nonpayment Crisis

After the federal government suspended student loan repayment for four and a half years, payments are finally due again—yet less than half of borrowers are repaying their debts on time. These high…

April 8, 2025

Could A Higher Endowment Tax Pressure Elite Schools To Expand?

Congressional Republicans are considering a significant hike in the excise tax on the endowments of rich universities as part of a broader tax reform effort. Most private universities with more than $500,000…

April 4, 2025

How One State Improved Its NAEP Scores

The most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress results had a lot of bad news, but there were some scattered bright spots. Louisiana was one of them. In fact, the…

March 31, 2025

Reimagining Federal Education R&D: DARPA for Education

Earlier in my professional life, I was the head of the political science department at Stony Brook University. When the chairs of the arts and science met, someone from the…

March 28, 2025

Cracking the Code Behind Dismal 8th Grade Reading Scores

The most recent round of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results delivered a familiar gut punch: Just 30 percent of eighth graders in the United States read at or above the…

March 25, 2025

Less Than Half of Student Borrowers Are Paying Their Loans

Student loan payments have been due for six months now—yet no one seems to have told the students. The federal government effectively suspended payments on student loans for four and…

March 25, 2025

Reimagining Federal Education R&D: IES, Workforce Skills, and State Leadership

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has taken a hit from DOGE, losing about 90 percent of its workforce. Regardless of the future of the Education Department, we need to…

March 24, 2025

The Student Loan Payment Pause Was a Catastrophic Mistake

In March 2020, as America shut down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress passed a law suspending federal student loan payments for six months. The payment pause ended up lasting, in…

March 21, 2025

Increasing Financial Aid Isn’t the Solution to High College Costs

Harvard University recently announced it would make tuition free for students from families earning below $200,000—but for middle-class students not lucky enough to receive a Harvard acceptance letter, college tuition is still…

March 20, 2025

To Transform K-12 Education, the Trump Administration Should Measure What Matters

When the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) was first administered in 1969, nearly nine out of 10 American children were born into married, two-parent homes. By 2023, this number had decreased to six…