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November 22, 2024

A Side Effect of the Booming Job Market: Wage Inequality Is Way Down

…innovations and a surge in the creation of new businesses, may be part of the recent acceleration in U.S. labor productivity. From a workforce-development standpoint, the role of businesses in driving…

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…

November 15, 2024

JD Vance is Right: Reduce the Power of Big Foundations to Help Charity

…percent set in the Tax Reform Act of 1969.  That super-low tax rate (especially compared to the standard 15 percent capital gains rate) has encouraged the tax-advantaged growth of private…

November 14, 2024

The Rotting of the College Board

…“chart the future of higher education,” Lemann explains in his new book, Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing. In 1947, the commission issued a report that…

November 13, 2024

How Trump Might Fulfill His Higher-Education Campaign Promises

…then accept applications for new accreditors who will impose real standards on colleges once again and once and for all.” Trump is correct to identify accreditors as the key to…

November 12, 2024

Government Contracting for “America’s Report Card” Is Broken

…was significantly behind industry standards, particularly in adopting new technologies like artificial intelligence for scoring and item development. For instance, while other assessments have used AI-assisted scoring to improve accuracy…

November 1, 2024

Latest Student Loan Cancellation Proposal Could Be Biggest Yet

…owning a collective $740 billion (nearly half the federal loan portfolio) are enrolled in IDR plans. Theoretically, under ED’s standard, most of that money could be forgiven right away. ED…

November 1, 2024

Kamala Harris’s Policy Book Doesn’t Even Mention Immigration

…given Harris’s Aug. 10 “pivot” to take a supposedly firmer stance on immigration.  That omission may help explain Harris’s nonanswers and shifting of blame when pressed on immigration during an Oct. 17 interview with…