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April 28, 2025
House Republicans’ Proposed Repayment Plan Fixes Vexing Student Loan Problem
…nearly a dozen different loan repayment plans and create just two: a standard repayment plan and an entirely new income-driven repayment (IDR) plan. In addition to simplification, the proposal aims…
April 17, 2025
Turn Public Service Loan Forgiveness into a State Block Grant
…more often about protecting professionals in the field from competition than truly improving standards. While proponents argue that PSLF encourages graduates to choose careers in public service, the incentives are more complex….
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
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…
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…
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,…
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…