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June 30, 2023
The U.S. Could Learn a Lot from This School in the U.K.
…for affordable private schools to sprout and take root in this country. If there’s ever going to be a serious challenge to the standard American paradigm of schooling with the…
June 28, 2023
Is ‘Bidenomics’ Even a Thing, Really?
…standards—or is something else? To govern is to choose. To govern wisely is to acknowledge the existence of trade-offs and opportunity costs. For example: Regulations that preserve coastal views for luxury homeowners…
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 number of high-performing Black students in charter and Catholic schools, it leaves very few able to meet the academic standards to gain admissions to the specialized public high schools….
June 23, 2023
SNAP Can Improve Nutrition, Help Farmers, and Support the Environment
…federal government’s National School Lunch Program (NSLP)—serving over 30 million children per school day—already sets nutrition standards for what schools can serve as part of the program. Reforms in 2012 required participating schools to…
June 22, 2023
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
Event Summary On June 22, AEI’s Brent Orrell and Shane Tews were joined by Rob Reich of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and Jeremy M. Weinstein of the…
June 22, 2023
The Cost of Thriving Has Fallen: Correcting and Rejecting the American Compass Cost-of-Thriving Index
…group fell by 7.5 weeks. These improvements aside, we reject the COTI approach as inadequate for assessing changes in living standards. While Cass’s estimates imply that male earnings have fallen…
June 21, 2023
The Bad Math Behind Economic Doomerism
…unattainable standard of living for sole breadwinner families after three-and-a-half decades of costs outpacing income—come from Cass’ report from earlier this year, “The 2023 Cost-of-Thriving Index.” Indeed, Cass argues more broadly that…
June 20, 2023
College isn’t just about career or credentials — it’s also about friends, formation, and, if you’re lucky, marriage
…our children toward choosing a college based on where we thought they were most likely to develop great lifelong friendships, would that be considered odd by today’s standards? As a…
June 16, 2023
Marriage Is Still the Best Way to Bond a Father to His Children
…standardized tests, are less likely to graduate high school, and are more likely to commit serious crimes as juveniles. I understand that Richard feels the married two-parent family structure is…
June 14, 2023
Better Data Means Better Policy
…The Census Bureau’s decision to begin using a more accurate inflation measure was not just apolitical, it was also the correct one. It will reveal that living standards in the…