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November 20, 2024
Eliminate Federal Lending to Graduate and Professional Students; Revenue to Fund Block Grants to States
…making accommodations for the second-order effects of the proposed policy changes. The proposed policy changes will follow the format for a policy solution that was outlined in a previously coauthored…
November 19, 2024
We Aren’t Testing Students on the Computer Skills They Actually Need
…again experienced the greatest decline, matching the –37-point decline in the computer literacy module. American students have performed poorly on international assessments for many years, but our economy outperforms every…
November 14, 2024
The Rotting of the College Board
…and Andover to Harvard and Yale had once meant that university administrators had a pretty good idea of what they were getting when students matriculated. Maybe some were mediocre students…
November 14, 2024
Florida, the Forgotten Education-Reform Star
…the authors note, no other state matched Florida’s NAEP results in fourth-grade math among students eligible for free lunch. But perhaps most significantly, Florida ranks third nationally in fourth-grade reading…
October 10, 2024
Do Liberal Arts Colleges Pay Off? What the Data Say
…peers at other schools by $215,000. For nursing majors the gap is $146,000; for mathematics and statistics majors it is $101,000. It’s possible that the well-rounded undergraduate education at liberal…
October 9, 2024
Two Cheers for California’s Ban on Legacy Admissions
…more likely to be admitted to mom or dad’s alma mater than a non-legacy applicant with comparable test scores. The idea that a student should get a leg up because…
September 23, 2024
The Last Bipartisan Policy
…puts a greater premium on real, meaningful learning, but also on less-tangible measures, like motivation and teachability, that matter in job performance. Removing degree requirements isn’t about competing with traditional…
September 6, 2024
The Latest Chronic Absenteeism Numbers
A new school year is beginning, and students are returning to school, but the question this year is how many will return to attending consistently. Chronic absenteeism, the percentage of…
August 29, 2024
It’s Time for Radical Reform in Higher Education
…also emboldening the thousands of colleges and universities that participate in these programs, enabling them to inflate their prices to match. As students come to realize they may not have to pay…
July 17, 2024
Coming Together on Chronic Absenteeism: Schools’ Top Priority This Year
Event Summary On July 17, AEI’s Nat Malkus was joined by Education Trust’s Denise Forte and Attendance Works’ Hedy Chang to discuss chronic absenteeism. Dr. Malkus presented chronic absenteeism data…