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March 21, 2025
Increasing Financial Aid Isn’t the Solution to High College Costs
…the high underlying costs of college, such as reining in administrative bloat, limiting federal subsidies to high-cost colleges, and opening up the higher education market to more competition. If these policies bring tuition down, existing financial…
March 20, 2025
To Transform K-12 Education, the Trump Administration Should Measure What Matters
…other male legal guardian. “NAEP does collect family structure data and makes it available on the NAEP Data Explorer,” Mark Schneider, former director of the Institute of Education Sciences, told us….
March 19, 2025
What Can We Learn from Louisiana’s Progress in K–12 Education?
…p.m. Adjournment Related Content Low-Performing Students Fall Farther Behind the Pack Mark Schneider | Education Next | February 6, 2025 Louisiana’s Clarion Call: “Let Teachers Teach” Robert Pondiscio | AEIdeas | August 12, 2024…
March 12, 2025
Why Alabama Needs The Success Sequence
…have markedly higher odds of realizing the American Dream: get at least a high school education work full time marry before having children A stunning 97% of young adults who…
March 10, 2025
Many Children Left Behind: The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress Results Indicate a Five-Alarm Fire
Key Points The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores underline a continuing decline in educational achievement in the United States. The Institute of Education Sciences’ tendency to favor…
February 24, 2025
A Conservative Vision for Higher Education Reform
…addressing inequity. Unintended consequences of higher standards for students and borrowers should be addressed through direct grant aid rather than lower standards. Introduction The year 2019 marked a dramatic turning…
February 24, 2025
A Glut of MBAs?
It’s all about the skills, not the credentials. You know the labor market times are changing when Harvard MBAs start showing up in the unemployment stories. According to a recent Wall…
February 7, 2025
Low-Performing Students Fall Farther Behind the Pack
On January 29, the National Assessment of Education Progress, NAEP, released results from its 2024 assessment. This latest installment of the self-styled “Nation’s Report Card” makes depressing reading. Indeed, if…
January 21, 2025
How Trump Can Permanently Fix the Student Loan Program
…this problem. In the private market, lenders assess whether a prospective borrower is likely to repay their debts in full — and decline to lend when they doubt the borrower’s…
December 18, 2024
Employers Should Drop Hiring Preferences for “Elite 34” Colleges
…Journal, some employers have dropped hiring preferences for graduates of elite universities—and a few even consider an Ivy League degree a black mark. The cases are anecdotal so far. But…