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November 28, 2022
Public School Instructional Offerings and Enrollment Changes: Evidence from Two Years After the Pandemic
…on public school enrollment. From a descriptive standpoint, we find that public school districts that offered the most remote instruction in the 2020–21 school year saw the largest declines in…
February 23, 2022
The Case Against Universal Free Lunch
…that pregnant pigs be provided enough space to stand and turn around—a law that yielded histrionic headlines, such as “Bacon May Disappear in California.”12 I’d love to be proved wrong,…
January 3, 2022
Dynamism as a Public Philosophy
…benefits the least advantaged more so than would strict equality — has typically represented the stance of American conservatives, who argue that state action should be evaluated not based on…
November 16, 2021
The Changing Face of Social Breakdown
…in loving commitment to others stands a better chance of showing people both what they have to gain by coming off the sidelines and what they have to lose by…
July 2, 2021
Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
…rates to the public. Adopt an absolute standard—and potentially a purely relative standard—for adjusting poverty thresholds over time. An absolute standard should update thresholds based on the Chained Consumer Price…
May 4, 2020
How To Educate an American
In the years after A Nation at Risk, conservatives’ ideas to reform America’s lagging education system gained much traction. Key items like school choice and rigorous academic standards drew bipartisan support…