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March 20, 2025
To Transform K-12 Education, the Trump Administration Should Measure What Matters
When the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) was first administered in 1969, nearly nine out of 10 American children were born into married, two-parent homes. By 2023, this number had decreased to six…
March 19, 2025
What Can We Learn from Louisiana’s Progress in K–12 Education?
The 2024 National Assessment for Educational Progress results revealed a nation in academic decline, with scores “below pre-pandemic levels . . . in ALL tested grades and subjects,” according to…
March 17, 2025
Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood
…that are struggling so much with depression … with suicide?” Ryan said. “I’m pro-women … [but] we need a national agenda for our boys, too.” Another major Democrat turning his…
March 14, 2025
A Historic Opportunity for Higher Education Reform
Once a sleepy policy area on the national scale, higher education is now a central issue making headlines in the overall political discourse. Believe it or not, the education…
March 13, 2025
Housing Roadblocks: Paving a New Way to Address Affordability
…2024, the real price of housing doubled in Phoenix and rose by 55 percent in Atlanta. According to the National Associaon of Realtors, the median new home price in now…
March 12, 2025
Why Alabama Needs The Success Sequence
…non-intact families (84%). What’s more: the Success Sequence is broadly popular with Americans of all kinds. A study by Nat Malkus at the American Enterprise Institute suggests that 76% of American parents…
March 11, 2025
The American Dream in Ohio depends on stronger Buckeye families
…family stability and fertility. For instance, just 47.6% of Ohio children are raised in intact, married families for the duration of childhood, well below the national average of 53%. This…
March 11, 2025
Democrats’ DOGE Delusions
While occupied with budget bills to keep the government open and set future spending and tax levels, Congress is also cleaning up past messes. Today, the House is expected to…
March 10, 2025
Many Children Left Behind: The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress Results Indicate a Five-Alarm Fire
Key Points The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores underline a continuing decline in educational achievement in the United States. The Institute of Education Sciences’ tendency to favor…
March 6, 2025
America’s New Frontier of Opportunity and Inclusion
…of speech. It’s certainly true that DEI and race-focused affirmative action have always lived in an uneasy tension with American ideals. Our founding documents—not to mention our entire national ethos—are…