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March 31, 2025
Reimagining Federal Education R&D: DARPA for Education
…work to improve student achievement is harder. I once estimated that only about 15 percent of the math interventions the Institute of Education Science (IES) supported over many years were…
March 31, 2025
Putting Children First: Child Welfare Priorities for the New Administration
…abuse and mental illness—and material poverty alone. They debated the appropriate balance between federal oversight and state innovation, with some panelists advocating for stronger federal accountability while others cautioned against…
March 28, 2025
Cracking the Code Behind Dismal 8th Grade Reading Scores
…or materials. A recent RAND research survey of teachers in grades 3-8 found that 44 percent of their students “always or nearly always experience difficulty” reading the content of their instructional materials….
March 28, 2025
Unfreezing New York’s Projects
…understand that they’d likely die before such funding materialized. Per Adams, if capitalizing on the value of public housing real estate makes obvious sense anywhere, it’s at Fulton & Elliott–Chelsea….
March 27, 2025
The Looming Debt Crisis, the Trump Tax Cuts, and Medicaid
…the federal debt held by the public in 2034 is $53 trillion or $54 trillion instead of just $50 trillion—let those figures sink in—hardly seems to matter at this late…
March 20, 2025
To Transform K-12 Education, the Trump Administration Should Measure What Matters
…states saw a decrease in scores from 2019 to 2024 in 8th-grade math. Tennessee, the sole exception, showed no change at all. To help analyze results, NAEP is legally required to collect…
March 17, 2025
Trump Should Put an End to Rent Control
…in rent-regulated units earn more than $100,000 annually. As a practical matter, owners have an incentive to rent to higher-income tenants to ensure rents, even if low, will at least…
March 10, 2025
Many Children Left Behind: The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress Results Indicate a Five-Alarm Fire
…“Students reaching [proficiency] have demonstrated competency over challenging subject matter, including subject-matter knowledge, application of such knowledge to real world situations, and analytical skills appropriate to the subject matter.”3 For example,…
February 24, 2025
What Do You Call an Automatic Stabilizer that Doesn’t Shrink When Conditions Improve? The Biden Food Stamps Blowout
Last month the Wall Street Journal editorial board (“The Great Biden Welfare Blowout”) reviewed the staggering number of welfare recipients in key programs at the close of the Biden administration: …
February 20, 2025
The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated
…the line for 30-year-olds, it’s not a good match with the public opinion average. The yellow line uses a different methodology to adjust 40-year-old incomes for the rising cost of…