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October 7, 2024
Has Kamala Harris Given Up on “College for All”?
In 2009, then-President Obama made a bold proposal: “By 2020, this nation will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.” His administration then pursued a slew of policies…
September 23, 2024
The Last Bipartisan Policy
…was recently introduced by liberal Democratic senators. But even if these policies are implemented nationwide, simply removing college degree requirements is not enough, mainly because state and federal governments generally…
September 6, 2024
The Latest Chronic Absenteeism Numbers
…much into them. More telling will be the national average 2023–24 school year. Some researchers have provided estimates of the 2023–24 national average, but it is hard to predict just…
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 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,…
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 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,…
May 23, 2024
Biden’s Unending Student Loan Forgiveness Run
On Tuesday, the Biden administration announced $7.7 billion in student debt cancellation for about 161,000 borrowers, equating to about $48,000 per borrower. Compared to what has already been spent on loan forgiveness…
May 9, 2024
FAFSA Flop: What Is Going On with the 2024–25 Cycle?
Event Summary On May 9, AEI hosted a panel conversation with AEI’s Beth Akers and Michael Brickman, Karen McCarthy of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, and Mark…
May 6, 2024
How Much Are You Willing to Spend on Student Loan Forgiveness?
…forgiveness they think would be appropriate. In popular discourse, student loan forgiveness remains an abstract idea to be debated, not a line in our nation’s budget to be scrutinized. Meanwhile,…