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November 22, 2024
A Side Effect of the Booming Job Market: Wage Inequality Is Way Down
…at 32 percent, almost three times more than the next closest issue, immigration. A plurality of voters—45 percent—said that their financial situation was worse than four years ago. As many…
November 21, 2024
A Local Option for Natural Gas Fracking
…the Marcellus Shale formation, which feeds natural gas extraction in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Many of these counties are economically distressed and have lost population. The time has come to give…
November 20, 2024
End Federal Loans for Graduate School
…government. Graduate borrowers can then take advantage of generous income-driven repayment plans, which forgive unpaid balances after a set period of time. As a result, CBO expects that taxpayers will lose 25…
November 19, 2024
A Trump Boom?
…occurs, rather than over time. Such “full expensing” encourages more investment by increasing returns. The 2017 business tax cuts are already boosting investment and workers’ wages, as well as supporting multinational corporations’…
November 19, 2024
We Aren’t Testing Students on the Computer Skills They Actually Need
…in the optional computational thinking module. Given how much time American students spend on digital devices and “communications technology,” you would think our students would excel. But just like on…
November 15, 2024
JD Vance is Right: Reduce the Power of Big Foundations to Help Charity
…mark for the first time. Over the past five years, foundation assets have grown from $1 trillion in 2018 to the current high due to a favorable investment climate and…
November 14, 2024
The Rotting of the College Board
…secondary educational institutions serving the Baby Boom generation. Standardized tests were designed to help solve this problem. And the College Board was, after a time, not the only third-party group…
November 14, 2024
Florida, the Forgotten Education-Reform Star
…handsome dividends. Florida was one of only five states where NAEP scores for fourth-grade reading did not decline during the Covid years, i.e., between 2019 and 2022. Over that same time period,…
November 13, 2024
How Trump Might Fulfill His Higher-Education Campaign Promises
…each issue in turn. Accreditation reform On the campaign trail, Trump devoted an unusual amount of time to accreditation reform. “The accreditors are supposed to ensure that schools are not…
November 12, 2024
The National Assessment of Educational Progress Recompete: Is It Real Change or Lipstick on a Pig?
Key Points The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has a congressional mandate to assess American students’ academic performance over time. Unfortunately, the bureaucratic processes to select NAEP’s contractors have…