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June 12, 2025
The Senate’s Higher Education Reforms Are Strong (But Could Be Stronger)
…which current law caps at relatively low levels. Colleges could also set lower loan limits for certain programs if they choose. The Senate’s proposed loan limits are long overdue. They should constrain…
May 14, 2025
Graduation in the Time of COVID: The Weakened Relationship with Chronic Absenteeism
…and document how that relationship shifted over the course of the pandemic. Read the full report. Notes 1. Michael A. Gottfried, “Chronic Absenteeism and Its Effects on Students’ Academic and…
December 4, 2024
Back to Basics: America’s Founding, Civics, and Self-Government in K-12 Curricula
…and Leadership, University of North Carolina; Brian V. Kennedy, International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers; and Michael Weiser, Chair of the Board of Directors, Jack Miller Center. The panel…
December 2, 2024
Reforming State Authorization of Colleges to Boost Competition and Lower Tuition
…entry such as unnecessary patents, occupational licensure, and certificate-of-need laws in health care. However, some of the most daunting—and underappreciated—barriers to entry in the United States constrain competition in higher…
November 21, 2024
A Consensus on Common-Sense Education Reform
…economist Michael Strain, here at AEI.) The report is short, only about 30 pages, and quite readable. If you have an interest in possible solutions to some of the biggest…
October 9, 2024
How to Make Millionaire Teachers
The very best teacher in America makes about the same salary and teaches about the same number of students as the very worst teacher. This is because we treat educators…
September 23, 2024
The Last Bipartisan Policy
Name a policy that Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Ron DeSantis, and Gavin Newsome all support. And I don’t mean something they are passively allowing or a shallow endorsement of motherhood…
June 18, 2024
A Unified Theory of Education
…worthy of this great nation. That’s where a unified theory just might help. Frederick M. Hess is the director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Michael Q….
June 15, 2024
Reimagining Early Education
For years, conservatives have dropped the ball on early childhood education policy, almost entirely ceding the playing field to the left. This has led to programs that lack guidance from…
May 9, 2024
FAFSA Flop: What Is Going On with the 2024–25 Cycle?
Event Summary On May 9, AEI hosted a panel conversation with AEI’s Beth Akers and Michael Brickman, Karen McCarthy of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, and Mark…