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December 17, 2024
Make America Smart Again: The Jeopardy Test for Graduation
…of all time, now in its 41st season. Minimized at times as a trivia game, it is far more than that. A study guide for the Jeopardy qualifying test includes lightweight topics such as pop…
December 17, 2024
Industrial Policy and Deficits: Dark Clouds for Democratic Capitalism
…At 80.9 percent, the employment rate is higher than at any time since March 2001, shortly after the employment rate hit its peak of 81.9 percent in April 2000. Everyone…
December 17, 2024
States Should Drop Accreditation Requirements for New Colleges
…Higher Ed Dive, October 10, 2023, https://www.highereddive.com/news/north-carolina-law-forces-colleges-to-change-accreditors-every-cycle/696197/. Jonathan Swan et al., “Five Takeaways from a Rocky 2024 Debut,” The New York Times, May 25, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/us/politics/takeaways-desantis-2024-twitter.html. Katherine Knott, “DeSantis Challenges…
December 14, 2024
Why the Riskiest Situation NYC Foster Kids Can Face Is Visiting Their Birth Parents
…sight of this maxim. Foster kids being hurt while spending time with their families is not a new phenomenon. A 2018 report by New York City’s Department of Investigation found that a…
December 11, 2024
The Often Overlooked Link Between Drug Use and Family Decline
…sake of their family’s economic prospects and safety, it was important to have a man who was sober most of the time. He would support his family and he would…
December 11, 2024
US Students Best Other Nations—in Achievement Gap Growth
…exceptional. Indeed, it is larger than the achievement gap growth in fourth-grade science since 2011 (or in any timespan from 2011 on) for any other country with complete TIMSS scores…
December 11, 2024
Some College Graduates Are Taking Lower-Paying Jobs
…not what happens across the board. As college degree attainment has risen over time, many graduates find themselves taking jobs that traditionally belonged to those without a college education—with no…
December 9, 2024
TIMSS Shows the Bottom Is Falling Out for US Test Scores
Last week’s release of 2023 scores from the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)—an international assessment measuring fourth and eighth graders in math and science—offers a fresh look at…
December 5, 2024
Inflation Reduction Act Offers a General Lesson against Industrial Policy
…IRA could “fragment the West.” This, at a time when geopolitical challenges with respect to Russia, China, and Iran make Western cooperation and coordination more important than at any time…
December 4, 2024
Shifting Patterns of Social Interaction: Exploring the Social Life of Urban Spaces Through A.I.
…lingering behavior, group sizes, and group formation. We find that the average walking speed has increased by 15%, while the time spent lingering in these spaces has halved across all…