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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 19, 2025
What Can We Learn from Louisiana’s Progress in K–12 Education?
…the National Assessment Governing Board. Louisiana, however, is an outlier: It was one of only two states that experienced growth over its pre-pandemic levels in fourth-grade reading and math, and it…
March 19, 2025
AI and Jobs: Measuring Impact and Building New Assessment Tools
…strategies for creating “headlight” data that can tell us where we might be heading. Event Materials Alex Tamkin et al: Which Economic Tasks Are Performed with AI? Evidence from Millions…
March 17, 2025
Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood
…in life, and they have difficulty finding a mate and forming a family, too. And so the cycle turns. The economic struggles of boys and men become entrenched across generations.”…
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…