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March 31, 2024
Can Local Journalism Be Saved?
…project is ambitious in scope and complex in design. Participants in the so-called NewsMatch program, including the MacArthur, Ford, Carnegie, Robert Wood Johnson, and Hewlett Foundations, join the New York Times to…
March 14, 2024
The “No Excuses” Model Is Due for a Renaissance
In a dispatch over the weekend, the New York Times took note of the rise of “super strict schools in England,” marked by “strict routines and detentions,” silent corridors, and “zero-tolerance” policies for even…
March 12, 2024
Family Dinners Offer a Silver Lining in a Bleak Social Capital Landscape
…Few people would question the idea that regularly eating together promotes family closeness and affection. Unfortunately, research by the eminent scholar of social capital, Robert Putnam, indicates that the share…
March 7, 2024
Proven Results: Highlighting the Benefits of Charter Schools for Students and Families
In 2002, I became a fifth-grade teacher at the lowest-performing public school in the South Bronx, New York City’s lowest-performing school district. A mere 16 percent of PS 277 students…
March 6, 2024
Caitlin Clark and Civil Society
…radar. Just like basketball taking off in Indiana—and giving us Hall of Famers Larry Bird from French Lick and Oscar Robertson from Indianapolis—women’s basketball emerging in Iowa seems a mystery….
February 8, 2024
CTC Expansion Rooted in Desire to Roll Back Work-based Welfare
…providing the CTC to non-working parents. For example, in 2018 Robert Greenstein, president of the liberal Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, and others proposed increasing the CTC and making…
January 26, 2024
Please Congress: Make Fiscal Sanity a Priority
…let parents claim eligibility based on current or prior year of earnings. This loosening of income requirements would finance less work by low-income parents according to analysis by AEI scholars. Furthermore, as Heritage’s Robert…
January 19, 2024
The Case for Curriculum
Since A Nation at Risk, Education Reform Efforts Have Mostly Stopped at the Classroom Door Executive Summary Decades of education reform have left policymakers, educators, and students alike fatigued and unimpressed….
January 2, 2024
Billionaire-Built Cities Would Be Better Than Nothing
…Philip Johnson and Robert A.M. Stern. (Disney has sold off most of its holdings.) Not far from Seoul, the Songdo International Business District was developed by a consortium of real…
December 18, 2023
No Excuses Now for NYCHA
…the sites of neighborhoods that the city’s Slum Clearance Committee, headed by Robert Moses, demolished without consulting the public. Today, however, NYCHA has limited resources, and residents are not necessarily…