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June 26, 2023
Why There Are So Few Black Kids at Stuyvesant: Private Schools and Charter Schools Pull Top Students Out of the System
…the same as in 2019; and the math disparities are even greater. Since New York’s overall scores were not significantly different than the national averages, there is no reason to believe that…
June 9, 2023
Schools Use Racist “Reparations Math” to Indoctrinate Black Students with Victimization
…level on the mathematics assessment. In states like Illinois, in 2022, only 8% of Illinois Black eighth graders were NAEP Proficient or above in math. That, despite the fact that in…
June 8, 2023
Oklahoma Has Approved the Nation’s First Religious Charter School. What’s That Mean?
…say to address their qualms? Nicole: As a matter of federal constitutional law, the question was settled over two decades ago. The federal establishment clause requires government neutrality toward religion. It…
May 31, 2023
Choice Reconsidered
Discussions of school choice frequently fall into familiar morality plays: Either you’re for empowering parents or supporting public education. The resulting debate manages to miss much of what matters. It ignores that…
May 10, 2023
AI Tutoring Has a Lot to Offer. But so Does Human Mentoring.
…of adults about an array of jobs. As Julia Freeland Fisher has put it, “Whom you know matters and what you know matters, but especially powerful is who knows you know…
February 23, 2023
Distance to 100: An Alternative to Racial Achievement Gaps
…longer blinded by demographic achievement gaps would quickly discover that roughly equal numbers of black, white and Hispanic students are reading below grade level nationally. (See Figure 2.) This matters…
November 28, 2022
Public School Instructional Offerings and Enrollment Changes: Evidence from Two Years After the Pandemic
…2021–22 school year. Our results suggest that the most-remote districts lost over 600,000 more students than they might have if their in-person instructional offerings matched those of the most-in-person districts….
August 30, 2022
Biden’s Student Loan Debt Plan is Driven by Politics, Not Economics
…the potential to make matters much worse. If future students anticipate this is just the first of many loan-cancellation events, they may be willing to pay and borrow more to…
August 10, 2022
A Failure to Respond: Public School Mask Mandates in the 2021–22 School Year
Key Points From September 2021 to late February 2022, school district mask mandates were in place for 61 percent of students in the US.During that period, Centers for Disease Control…
February 23, 2022
The Case Against Universal Free Lunch
…on whether the USDA and AHA are right or wrong in their dietary assumptions. It’s now a matter of well-documented record that the USDA’s original “food pyramid” was reworked against…