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October 6, 2023
After a Banner Year for School Choice, the Challenge Is to Ensure New Programs Work
…to fare better? I can think of few who can speak more thoughtfully on this topic than Robert Enlow, the CEO and president of EdChoice (launched in 1995 as the…
September 22, 2023
Repairing the Damage Columbia’s Teachers College Did to American Kids Will Take Years
I’ve come to bury Lucy Calkins, not to praise her. Columbia University’s Teachers College announced this month what once seemed unthinkable: It’s “dissolving” its relationship with Calkins, sending the controversial literacy…
September 19, 2023
House Budget Plan Proposes Commonsense Welfare Changes
The House Budget Committee, headed by Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX), today released a draft budget proposal detailing the majority’s spending priorities and proposed changes across a range of government benefits and programs….
September 18, 2023
Students’ Lack of Basic Knowledge of US History and Civics Remains a National Embarrassment
A new study from a pair of Penn State researchers finds that passing the US Citizenship Test as a high school graduation requirement does nothing to improve youth voter turnout. Within the…
September 18, 2023
No Culture Wars, Please, We’re Academics
…versus unmarried mothers, even when the married and unmarried mothers are the same age and have the same levels of education.” From Charles Murray to Robert Putnam, Thomas Sowell to…
September 18, 2023
A Degree of Risk
…requires that Congress speak clearly before a department secretary can unilaterally alter large sections of the American economy,” said Chief Justice John Roberts in the majority opinion. Despite the defeat, Biden has doubled…
September 17, 2023
Tracking ‘two-parent privilege’ in Utah
…Joseph Price at BYU and Robert Lerman at the Urban Institute. And when it comes to a school’s climate, research on family and education indicates that children from stable, intact, two-parent…
September 15, 2023
Cities and Severe Mental Illness: The Challenge in New York City and Los Angeles
…are grappling with similar problems. Agenda 10:30 a.m. Opening Remarks Robert Doar, President, AEI 10:45 a.m. Panel Discussion Panelists: Scott Auwarter, Assistant Executive Director, Bronxworks Pietro D’Ingillo, Clinical and Forensic…
August 24, 2023
The Hill that Public Education Dies on: Transgender Policies’ Utter Contempt for Parents
An unmistakable fault line is emerging between much of public education and many of those it serves, particularly parents, on transgender issues. Put bluntly, a strong majority of Americans—57 percent…
August 17, 2023
The ‘Utah Family Miracle’ and Why It Matters
…and Robert Lerman at the Urban Institute, as well as Brad Wilcox at the University of Virginia, indicates, for instance, that one of the top predictors of economic performance across…