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November 20, 2024
Eliminate Federal Lending to Graduate and Professional Students; Revenue to Fund Block Grants to States
…the problems facing graduate student lending in the United States. The solution outlined here offers a particular interpretation of that framework using a market-oriented approach. Read the full pdf here….
November 19, 2024
Low-Rise Multifamily and Housing Supply: A Case Study of Seattle
…market-rate housing that promotes affordability. The key is to allow market forces to use by-right zoning to drive small-scale development, when also supported by clear and simplified regulatory frameworks. We…
November 19, 2024
We Aren’t Testing Students on the Computer Skills They Actually Need
The results of the 2023 International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) were just released. ICILS is given to a sample of eighth-grade students and is supposed to measure their ability…
November 17, 2024
Affordable Housing—and No Tax Hike
…to avoid following in California’s housing unaffordability footsteps. LUV offers a better path by unleashing market forces to create abundant housing for a broad range of income levels. Rather than…
November 15, 2024
JD Vance is Right: Reduce the Power of Big Foundations to Help Charity
…foundations to balloon. According to FoundationMark, which relies on publicly available data, “U.S. foundation assets rose nearly $200 billion in 2023 to set a new record and top the $1.5 trillion…
November 14, 2024
The Rotting of the College Board
…hand, has remained mostly true to its roots. It is designed to figure out what students have learned and where they should be placed and is even expanding its market…
November 13, 2024
How Trump Might Fulfill His Higher-Education Campaign Promises
…could see continued efforts to open up the accreditation market. With control of the Education Department, the new administration could accelerate the recognition of new accreditors. Colleges could then seek…
November 12, 2024
The National Assessment of Educational Progress Recompete: Is It Real Change or Lipstick on a Pig?
Key Points The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has a congressional mandate to assess American students’ academic performance over time. Unfortunately, the bureaucratic processes to select NAEP’s contractors have…
November 12, 2024
Government Contracting for “America’s Report Card” Is Broken
If you tried to apply for federal student aid this 2024–2025 school year, you would have been met with a glitch-filled online form created using 40-year-old code, released three months…
November 12, 2024
Irresistible Policy, Meet the Unmovable Labor Market
Gad Levanon, chief economist at The Burning Glass Institute, analyzed data relating to the share of undocumented workers in a wide variety of trades and lower-wage, lower-skilled occupations, as well…