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July 18, 2023
The Education Community’s Views on School Improvement Have Fundamentally Changed
…and demanding. None of it envisioned any fundamental alterations to the schoolhouse as understood by Horace Mann or the architects of David Tyack’s One Best System. One consequence was that, especially…
June 28, 2023
Yes, College Is Still a Good Investment
…Harvard economist David Deming shows that college education remains a worthwhile investment for long-term economic returns. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Deming…
June 22, 2023
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
…ability to use technology for humanity’s benefit and offered concrete steps we can take, such as promoting norms of risk assessment and accountability in science and technology. —David Veldran and…
June 20, 2023
Down Through the Ages
…up. In 2001, David Brooks argued that one of the big differences between Red and Blue America was that the denizens of Red America are not constantly faced with things…
June 16, 2023
Marriage Is Still the Best Way to Bond a Father to His Children
…born in Florida between 1992 and 2002, MIT researcher David Autor found that, relative to their sisters, boys born to low-education and unmarried mothers, raised in low-income neighborhoods, and enrolled at…
May 3, 2023
The Mainline Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Social Capitalism
Download the Dataset When Alexis de Tocqueville penned his seminal Democracy in America lauding the strength of American communities, institutions, and associations, he noted the unique status of religion. Religion,…
February 23, 2023
Distance to 100: An Alternative to Racial Achievement Gaps
…study conducted by University of Southern California researcher David Quinn were randomly assigned to view a TV news story about the differential achievement of black and white learners, Quinn found…
February 2, 2023
Prioritizing Money Over Marriage, Today’s Parents Are Making a Big Mistake
…their own kids. About half of adults today witnessed a divorce or break-up in their own parents’ relationship. The Institute for Family Studies research fellows David and Amber Lapp have explained that “anxiety about…
January 3, 2023
Systemic Disadvantage
…discrimination in employment and housing. Low-income whites share other social experiences more commonly associated with blacks and other racial minorities. David Lapp, co-founder of Braver Angels and research fellow at…
January 3, 2022
Dynamism as a Public Philosophy
…dawn of the Industrial Era, that the notions of potentiality and fulfillment took on an especially commercial hue. The Scottish philosophers David Hume and Adam Smith argued that it was…