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March 19, 2024
Getting K–12 Right
Event Summary On March 19, Louisiana State Superintendent Cade Brumley, Nicole Neily of Parents Defending Education, and Derrell Bradford of 50CAN joined AEI’s Frederick M. Hess and Michael Q. McShane…
March 11, 2024
Taking On the College Cartel
The venerable economist Milton Friedman once said, “Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change.” That’s the impulse behind Winston Churchill’s admonition (later famously echoed by Obama’s chief of staff Rahm…
March 11, 2024
Louisiana’s FAFSA U-Turn Signals That “College-for-All” Has Peaked
Fifteen years ago, AEI’s ever-prescient Charles Murray argued in Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality that too many students were going to college—that “college-for-all” loomed too…
March 11, 2024
Why Educators Often Have It Wrong About Right-Leaning Parents
Three decades ago, John Gray’s mega-hit book, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, sold 15 million copies. The premise was simple: When we see the world in different ways, it’s…
March 6, 2024
It’s Time to Scrap the Federal Student Loan Program
It may come as a surprise, but the Biden administration has effectively abolished the federal student loan program. Well, at least if a “student loan program” is understood as one…
March 4, 2024
As the family goes, so goes the state. Utah gets this
…same will be required of Utah lawmakers and citizens to keep the Utah family miracle strong. Rick Larsen is president of the Sutherland Institute. Brad Wilcox is a professor and…
February 29, 2024
Parents’ Rights, Yes. But Parent Responsibilities, Too
Americans disagree with one another about all manner of important topics when it comes to schools and schooling. That’s inevitable in a nation of more than 300 million people. And…
February 22, 2024
Chronic Absenteeism Could Be the Biggest Problem Facing Schools Right Now
…he’d be willing to expand it into something I could share with all of you. He was kind enough to agree, and here’s what he had to say. —Rick Rick,…
February 22, 2024
Education and the Right
…Childhood, K–12, and College, AEI’s Frederick M. Hess and Michael Q. McShane offer a robust, practical vision for educational improvement. Grounded in personal agency, institutional responsibility, and gratitude, the authors…
February 15, 2024
Conservatives Must Seize the Opportunity to Lead on Education. Here’s How…
Chaotic campuses rife with double standards about the kinds of speech that merit protection. A Biden administration determined to let student borrowers shrug off hundreds of billions in loans and stick taxpayers with the…