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February 15, 2024
Conservatives Must Seize the Opportunity to Lead on Education. Here’s How…
…reducing the pressure to chase unnecessary degrees. Especially given sharp reductions in full-time student workloads over time, legislators should push public colleges to develop three-year degree options that will expedite degree completion…
February 14, 2024
Want To Slash Your Risk For Divorce? Start Going To Church
…religious believers who regularly attend church, synagogue, temple, and so on, several times a month or more. Their ties to their local religious communities and their faith generally endow their…
February 14, 2024
Valentine’s Day Marred By Loneliness Crisis
…the Wheatley Institute, unmarried adults aged 18-55 were twice as likely to say they are lonely “most of the time” or “all the time” as married adults (28% vs.14%). The…
February 14, 2024
Why You Should Get Married
…and Don’t Have Kids Are Getting Richer.” Or The Atlantic in 2019, offering “The Case Against Marriage.” Or, in 2021, The New York Times with “Divorce Can Be an Act of Radical Self-Love.” In the Times piece,…
February 13, 2024
The Awfulness of Elite Hypocrisy on Marriage
…almost all unmarried—“Do you personally plan to finish your education, work full-time, marry, and then have children?,” 97 percent said yes. And when I asked, “If you came home at…
February 9, 2024
Resolving to Learn Lessons from Record Pandemic Fraud
…unemployment benefit programs created by Congress—combined to produce staggering demand for benefits. Claims quickly soared to 33 million by June 2020—more than two and a half times the prior record set during…
February 9, 2024
The Upside of the College Enrollment Downswing
…same is true for just 1 percent of psychology programs. And this only accounts for students who actually graduate. Students who attend university for a period of time, often going…
February 7, 2024
Elite Colleges Need to Offer Less Affirmation. And Insist on More Work.
…studying for the second mid-term. Professor: How much time did you actually devote to this class? Don’t include the time you attended the class or the time you spent reading the…
February 7, 2024
The Past and Future of Education Reform
…as the role model for the right when it comes to education reform. Since the Reagan era, the right’s education reformers have repeatedly fallen victim to the siren songs of…
February 7, 2024
To Save Local Journalism, Update The Public Broadcasting Act
During his time as the U.S. ambassador to France, Thomas Jefferson wrote that if he faced a choice between “a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a…