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November 13, 2024
How Trump Might Fulfill His Higher-Education Campaign Promises
…could see continued efforts to open up the accreditation market. With control of the Education Department, the new administration could accelerate the recognition of new accreditors. Colleges could then seek…
October 25, 2024
How Workforce Education Can Boost Earnings and Fill Jobs
Republicans and Democrats alike agree about the importance of workforce training. They’re right: Despite a recent labor-market cooling, there are still 7.7 million unfilled jobs in the United States. Unfortunately, America’s workforce-education…
October 9, 2024
How to Make Millionaire Teachers
…not do it alone and would rely on a handpicked team, AI, and other tools, to provide support. Ultimately, a transparent marketplace with reviews and recommendations would not allow weak…
June 15, 2024
Reimagining Early Education
…some important conservative intuitions, like fiscal restraint, the centrality of family and the power of markets. Early childhood education is a crucial kitchen-table issue for families and communities. Millions of…
June 13, 2024
A Deal to Trump Student Loans
…the rest of the cost underwritten by the private market. The whole rationale for student loans is that they solve a market failure based on an information problem and an…
May 9, 2024
The Federal Student Loan Program Is Unraveling
…enough to create a thriving private student loan market. Leaning against financial innovation, hostile regulators often threaten to block the private sector from using factors correlated with each college’s financial value…
May 2, 2024
A New Lost Generation: Disengaged, Aimless, and Adrift
…grace” during the pandemic, one middle school teacher and administrator told me. Students didn’t just get passing marks, they got good grades for minimal effort. Now there’s a lack of…
March 14, 2024
The “No Excuses” Model Is Due for a Renaissance
In a dispatch over the weekend, the New York Times took note of the rise of “super strict schools in England,” marked by “strict routines and detentions,” silent corridors, and “zero-tolerance” policies for even…
March 11, 2024
Taking On the College Cartel
…results like rates of graduation, year-to-year retention, and job placement. Over the longer term, they would need to track student labor market outcomes and calculate graduates’ earnings—as compared to a…
March 6, 2024
College or Trade School? How About Both?
…access to higher education and reaped the benefits in terms of higher GDP and living standards. Education, then, feeds human capital development, the complex mix of education, skills, and social connection on which free markets depend for growth. To…