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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…
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 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…
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 17, 2024
Make America Smart Again: The Jeopardy Test for Graduation
…of difficulty has not deterred mass market viewership. Just the opposite. In 2021, Jeopardy was the most-watched nonsports program on television, averaging 9.2 million nightly viewers, and this popularity sends a message. Americans…
December 11, 2024
Some College Graduates Are Taking Lower-Paying Jobs
…more non-college pathways for these individuals to develop and prove their capabilities. A job market that values skills over degrees is possible. But there’s still a long way to go….
November 14, 2024
The Rotting of the College Board
…hand, has remained mostly true to its roots. It is designed to figure out what students have learned and where they should be placed and is even expanding its market…