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July 17, 2024
Coming Together on Chronic Absenteeism: Schools’ Top Priority This Year
…Opening Remarks: Nat Malkus, Deputy Director, Education Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute 4:05 p.m. Panel I Panelists: Hedy Chang, Founder, Attendance Works Denise Forte, President, Education Trust Moderator: Nat Malkus,…
July 17, 2024
Key Takeaways from a New Report on Potential Unemployment Insurance Reforms
Yesterday, the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) released the final report of its Unemployment Insurance (UI) Task Force, of which I am a member. The task force was created…
July 15, 2024
It Is Time to Set Goals for Cutting Chronic Absenteeism
…threat that elevated chronic absenteeism becomes a new normal in the nation’s schools. That’s why I am coming together with Denise Forte, CEO of the Education Trust, and Hedy Chang,…
July 11, 2024
Exploring Trends in Food Bank Use
…food has changed for all US households over the past several years, we rely on two nationally representative surveys conducted by the US Census Bureau. The first is the Household…
June 27, 2024
New Legal Roadblocks for Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Crusade
…scheduled to begin on the first of July. The court decisions were the first step in a legal process that may ultimately end up at the Supreme Court. The nation’s…
June 26, 2024
Reducing Racial Disparities in Foster Care Might Endanger Black Children
…The only racial or ethnic group currently subject to different treatment is Native children under the Indian Child Welfare Act, which (similar to the Minnesota law) requires different measures for…
June 23, 2024
Is Systemic Racism Responsible for the Increase in Child Mortality Rates?
…Native American communities, meanwhile, have long suffered from higher levels of violence and above-average rates of suicide. The isolation and sense of hopelessness in Native American territories is palpable —…
June 20, 2024
The War on Poverty at 60: Lessons to Inform the Future
…panel examined poverty measurement. Panelists agreed that the official poverty measure is outdated and should no longer be used by government agencies. David Johnson from the National Academies of Sciences,…
June 18, 2024
A Unified Theory of Education
When it comes to education, these have been the best of times and the worst of times. In 2021, Arizona adopted the nation’s first universal education-savings-account (ESA) program. In 2022,…
June 18, 2024
Economic Opportunity and Social Mobility
…since in early 2009, it wasn’t clear that the nation had escaped the financial crisis that had begun just months earlier. The unemployment rate back then was at about 8%…