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August 29, 2024
It’s Time for Radical Reform in Higher Education
There were many years when Republican and Democratic lawmakers weren’t too far apart on higher education policy. Their rhetoric reflected different priorities, but neither party really pushed for a radical…
August 1, 2024
Financing Graduate Education: Next Steps for Federal Policy
Key Points In the interest of students and taxpayers, it is time for bipartisan and commonsense graduate financing policy reform. This issue’s complexity and importance demand a comprehensive solution that…
June 27, 2024
New Legal Roadblocks for Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Crusade
Last fall President Biden announced his “Plan B” for student loan cancellation after the Supreme Court ruled his initial efforts unconstitutional. Plan B, named the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan,…
June 18, 2024
A Unified Theory of Education
…science of reading is ascendant, with lawmakers in states like Mississippi, Louisiana, and Indiana revamping early literacy instruction according to rigorous, reliable research on how students learn to read. But…
May 29, 2024
Holding out Hope for a Left-Right Consensus on Federal Student Lending
…Earlier this month, the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity’s (FREOPP) Preston Cooper and Beth hosted a webinar to discuss a recent report the three of us co-authored on the potential for expanding the…
May 9, 2024
FAFSA Flop: What Is Going On with the 2024–25 Cycle?
…the Ball on FAFSA Beth Akers | AEIdeas | February 14, 2024 Biden Administration Continues to Fumble the New Financial Aid Application Beth Akers | AEIdeas | January 31, 2024…
May 9, 2024
The Federal Student Loan Program Is Unraveling
…promising loan cancellation. Lawmakers could use those savings for deficit reduction, or to expand financial aid for truly needy students. But lawmakers who want to pursue privatization must avoid several…
May 2, 2024
A New Lost Generation: Disengaged, Aimless, and Adrift
…vexing, blind-men-and-the-elephant feeling to all this. School district officials and education policymakers will tell you the post-pandemic lesson is that schools need to adapt and be more flexible, appealing, and…
May 2, 2024
Q&A: A Conservative Vision for Education
…mixed feelings, how do we think parents and policymakers should think about SEL? We’ll put it this way: If a principal is sending home notes reporting that teachers are making…
May 1, 2024
Getting Higher Education Right
…p.m. Panel Discussion Panelists: Beth Akers, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Wayne D. Lewis Jr., President, Houghton University Michael Q. McShane, Adjunct Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Andy Smarick, Senior Fellow,…