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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…
December 9, 2024
TIMSS Shows the Bottom Is Falling Out for US Test Scores
…the academic performance of US and international students. The results are grim. Three things stand out. First (and perhaps not surprisingly), the pandemic harmed student achievement. Between 2019 and 2023,…
December 5, 2024
SNAP and the “Make America Healthy Again” Agenda
…programs, and 95 percent of that funding is directed toward SNAP. One of the top priorities should be establishing nutrition standards for SNAP by eliminating funding for sugary beverages and ultra-processed foods. They should…
December 3, 2024
How States Can Shake Up the Stagnant Higher Education Market
…education, low barriers should not mean low standards for student outcomes at colleges with a performance record to evaluate. Decouple accreditation from state authorization. Most states require new colleges to become…
November 25, 2024
Don’t Write Off Workforce Pell Grants
…funding, workforce programs would have to meet high standards, including a minimum 70 percent completion rate and a 70 percent job placement rate. Critically, there’s also an earnings standard: one…
November 21, 2024
A Consensus on Common-Sense Education Reform
…on personalized learning tools where proven effective. Teacher quality requires strengthening through national standards and targeted incentives. Early education and community college programs need quality-focused expansion. Parent and community engagement…
November 20, 2024
End Federal Loans for Graduate School
…similar metrics. Reformers should consider creating protections for private student lenders to employ such underwriting practices, which would encourage the market to grow. With the national debt standing at nearly…
November 15, 2024
Calibration: Making AI a Partner at Work
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the workforce, yet the workers who stand to benefit the most are often the most wary of it. Lower-skilled and less-educated workers view AI as…