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May 4, 2024
Make Parents Pay for Kids Who Miss School To Curb Chronic School Absenteeism
…22%. It’s hardly a way to combat the learning loss of school lockdowns, which, per the National Assessment of Educational Progress, set back math and reading proficiency by two decades, especially for…
April 11, 2024
The “Case for Curriculum” Is about Reducing Teachers’ Workload
…curriculum. We know from various RAND surveys that nearly all teachers draw upon “materials I developed and/or selected myself” to teach English language arts, for example. Those materials don’t create themselves. An MDR…
April 11, 2024
The Right Has an Opportunity to Rethink Education in America
…the SAT should matter for college admissions. Meanwhile, California’s Democratic officials recently approved new math standards that would end advanced math in elementary and middle school and Oregon’s have abolished the requirement that high school…
April 3, 2024
School Absenteeism Has Become A Big Problem. But We Can Do Something About It.
…Nat Malkus, who’s tracked the numbers on chronic absenteeism in his widely-referenced Return to Learn Tracker, has reported the situation is even worse in the nation’s poorest and low-achieving communities. In Los Angeles,…
March 26, 2024
Reading Scores Have Plunged Since the Pandemic. What This Senator Wants to Do About That
…so important to you? Cassidy: Literacy—the basic ability to read—is at the heart of all other learning. If students do not learn to read, they cannot read to learn new material…
March 11, 2024
Taking On the College Cartel
…to get started. The current system isn’t suited to facilitate competition and creation. However, some form of oversight is necessary as a matter of fiduciary responsibility. The obvious solution is…
March 11, 2024
Why Educators Often Have It Wrong About Right-Leaning Parents
…about the fairness and safety of girls’ sports. Where you may see bigoted parents seeking to “whitewash” history, conservatives see a response to politicized materials that replace one-dimensional portrayals of America…
March 6, 2024
College or Trade School? How About Both?
…thrive psychologically, socially, and materially. Higher levels of education have long been associated with increased trust in others and greater participation in the relationships that create so-called “weak ties”—the “friend of a…
March 5, 2024
A Conservative Vision for Education Reform
…better demands maturity, civility, and mutual respect. But it also requires that we articulate the changes we would like to see and, equally important, the things we believe to be…
February 23, 2024
Study What You Love or Study What Will Make You Money?
…only thing that matters when it comes to choosing a college major. There’s also the question of comparative advantage: As any economist will tell you, while the average remuneration for…