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April 9, 2025
Trump’s Tariff Formula Is Still Wrong. Maybe That’s Why No One Will Admit They Created It.
Last Friday, we showed that the Trump Administration’s tariff formula contained an error that made its calculated tariffs up to four times too large. The entire premise of the administration’s…
April 4, 2025
President Trump’s Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense. It’s Also Based on an Error.
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March 31, 2025
Reimagining Federal Education R&D: DARPA for Education
…one person left in NCER, there simply won’t be anybody with the right experiences and standing to improve EDU. What happens next to NCER is unclear. If we assume that…
March 25, 2025
AI Talent: It’s Not Just for High Tech Anymore
…stand-alone AI-focused roles. This means that, for the time being, AI is being implemented for augmentation as opposed to automation, and that hiring AI-literate employees does not usually come at the…
March 25, 2025
Reimagining Federal Education R&D: IES, Workforce Skills, and State Leadership
…spurred other states to change, serving as a how-to model for best policies and practices. In Louisiana, a stand-out among the 2024 NAEP results, the governor and state superintendent of education…
March 3, 2025
Up in the Air
…and reinvesting the $100 billion in savings to increasing spending on AI and robotics. The trade-off here is stark. According to Morgan Stanley analysts, the average annual salary for eliminated…
February 27, 2025
Powering AI: The Energy Workforce Crisis No One Is Talking About
…energy transition and industrial revitalization will face continued headwinds. The rapid rise of AI and the potential it holds for higher living standards and longer, healthier lives depends on a…
January 23, 2025
Four College Enrollment Trends to Watch
…four significant trends stand out from the latest NSC data. I explore each of them in turn below. The FAFSA debacle affected enrollment much less than many expected. The Biden administration’s mishandling of…
January 3, 2025
AI and People: Better Together
…raising skill levels across society, which has long been the key to raising standards of living. The study’s observations about how social or noncognitive skills fit with AI are worth considering as…
December 11, 2024
US Students Best Other Nations—in Achievement Gap Growth
…are good reasons to treat international comparisons with some degree of caution. On a more ignominious note, when it comes to achievement gap growth between 2011 and 2023, the US stands apart from…