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June 20, 2025
Senate Embraces “Do No Harm” for Higher Education
…$27,000. The Senate proposal’s main shortcoming is its failure to account for debt burdens. Many degree programs deliver earnings slightly above the benchmark but impose outrageous student debt burdens. For…
June 16, 2025
Accountable for Outcomes: We Need Evidence-Based Funding Models
Key Points With over 1.1 million credentials available but only 12 percent delivering significant wage gains, learners face a chaotic marketplace that lacks effective oversight. Top-decile credentials yield annual wage…
June 12, 2025
The Senate’s Higher Education Reforms Are Strong (But Could Be Stronger)
…incomplete. The accountability system incorporates no measure of prices or student debt burdens—if graduates’ median earnings are one dollar above the benchmark, colleges face no accountability, even if debt burdens…
June 5, 2025
Measuring the Value of Nondegree Credentials
…Opens 5:00 p.m. Opening Remarks: Mark Schneider, Nonresident Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute 5:05 p.m. Conversation: Mark Schneider, Nonresident Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Matt Sigelman, President, The Burning Glass…
May 7, 2025
Colleges Must Help Return Student Borrowers to Repayment
…should want to avoid this looming tidal wave of student loan defaults. Borrowers who default see their wages garnished and their tax refunds seized, in addition to a black mark on their…
May 7, 2025
Republicans Unveil Plan to Rein in Student Debt and Waste in Higher Education
…borrowing for graduate and professional programs. These loans have enabled institutions to dramatically expand expensive master’s degrees—many of which offer questionable labor market value to students—knowing that federal dollars would…
April 24, 2025
Not Local Enough: The Montgomery County Public Schools Case
…As Charles Tiebout observed in his classic 1956 essay, A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures, municipalities compete for residents based on the market basket of public goods they offer. There is…
April 8, 2025
Could A Higher Endowment Tax Pressure Elite Schools To Expand?
…schools subject to the tax fluctuates from year to year due to changes in the market value of endowments and how the IRS counts students, the list is illustrative of the sorts of…
March 31, 2025
Reimagining Federal Education R&D: DARPA for Education
Earlier in my professional life, I was the head of the political science department at Stony Brook University. When the chairs of the arts and science met, someone from the…
March 25, 2025
Reimagining Federal Education R&D: IES, Workforce Skills, and State Leadership
…what skills adults bring to the job market. Getting state-by-state results could help state leadership identify shortfalls in the skills of their adult population and develop programs and policies to…