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November 12, 2024
Government Contracting for “America’s Report Card” Is Broken
If you tried to apply for federal student aid this 2024–2025 school year, you would have been met with a glitch-filled online form created using 40-year-old code, released three months…
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…
October 3, 2024
Six Ideas to Fix Higher Education in 2025
…students in high-quality programs such as law or medicine could easily secure financing from the private market. But privatizing graduate student loans would end the federal subsidy that expensive graduate programs of…
October 2, 2024
Higher Education: Making Education Beyond High School Work for All
…century labor market. For low-income students especially, college has been sold as a path to the middle class. As a result, the share of the population 25 and older with…
September 17, 2024
Back to School: Shedding Light on Risks and Harm in the Private Student Lending and Servicing Market
…Administration to cancel student loans despite no legal pathway to do so. But the private student loan industry is a well- functioning consumer credit market. Read the full testimony here….
September 11, 2024
After Decades of Competitive Admissions, Getting into College Has Finally Become Easier
…admissions rates mean colleges must compete more fiercely to attract students, and for many that means slashing tuition. Policymakers should heed this lesson: a more competitive market in higher education…
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 29, 2024
Holding out Hope for a Left-Right Consensus on Federal Student Lending
…lending are centered around how to properly regulate an expanded student loan market—even if just for graduate lending—and to what extent federal lending should be capped, conservatives should consider that…