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February 7, 2024
Elite Colleges Need to Offer Less Affirmation. And Insist on More Work.
…and Mindy Marks calculated that in 1961 the average full-time student at a four-year college studied about 24 hours per week; by 2003, that was down to 14 hours. We’ve normalized a…
February 7, 2024
The Past and Future of Education Reform
…when yesterday’s left worked to impose bureaucratic uniformity on the nation’s schools. Rather, we’ll focus on the era of education reform that started in 1983 with the landmark report, A Nation…
February 7, 2024
To Save Local Journalism, Update The Public Broadcasting Act
…public broadcasting is not immune from a market test. It has been 56 years since Lyndon Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act, which has gone virtually unchanged in the interim….
January 31, 2024
Perspective: The ‘social workplace’ and why it matters to Zoomers
…human. Looked at this way, markets are human social behavior “at-scale,” driven by the innate human tendency to trade for mutual development and benefit. Data from our most recent report on “The…
January 12, 2024
Get Ready for AI-Driven Skill Democratization
…and, to a lesser extent, trade dramatically reduced the number of middle-skill jobs leading to what economists called a “polarized” labor market: many high-skilled and low-skilled jobs but relatively few that…
January 12, 2024
What is the Utah “Family Miracle”?
…teens. And under Cox’s leadership, Utah has also launched a social marketing campaign — relying on billboards and social media ads of its own — to highlight the dangers of social media and…
January 11, 2024
Tax Credit Nation — Politicians Are Casting New Spending As ‘Tax Cuts,’ Hiding Their True Cost
…played an important role in recent American social policy, including by offering incentives for work over welfare. But just because new and expanded credits may be falsely marketed as “tax cuts”…
January 10, 2024
Even Congress’s “Tax Extenders” Are About More Benefits
…marketing. Perhaps it was inevitable that proposals to revive the 2021 CTC expansion would someday find their way into a tax extenders package. But that should only heighten concerns that…
January 4, 2024
To Fix Their Housing Shortage in 2024, Cities and States Should Turn To Market
States and cities considering housing supply reforms in the new year to combat worsening affordability should unleash the free market rather than rely on the Department for Housing and Urban…
January 2, 2024
Billionaire-Built Cities Would Be Better Than Nothing
…the high-water mark of racial segregation, a private developer named James Rouse planned an integrated city in nearby Columbia, Md. Columbia is not perfect, but it remains racially diverse, and according to data…