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February 22, 2024
Chronic Absenteeism Could Be the Biggest Problem Facing Schools Right Now
…to divert valuable class time toward helping chronically absent students catch up—which leaves less time to devote to students with more regular attendance, many of whom also need focused attention….
February 20, 2024
The New Right’s Attack on Markets Is as Ignorant as the Old Left’s
…have demonstrated the power to raise living standards over time. It is worth noting at this point that even the Nordic states, like that bastion of survival-of-the-fittest capitalism, Sweden, exhibit…
February 20, 2024
Planning a Career in the Age of AI
…time and money spent retraining of workers. As the chart below shows, today’s ubiquitous, internet-powered economy didn’t appear overnight. It took four decades to get us to where we are, and…
February 16, 2024
Marriage is Key to Living Your Best Life
America is living in a time of rising anti-marriage sentiment. Voices on the political fringes—both left and right—claim that “there is no advantage to marriage in the Western world for…
February 16, 2024
The Overlooked Benefits of Work-from-Home Opportunities
…bring for mothers. Using data from US household surveys and time-diaries to assess the prevalence of WFH, they found that in fields where the opportunity to work remotely increased, so…
February 15, 2024
Sacred Sex
…back in the 1980s and 1990s—of the relationship between religion and sex obscure this important sociological truth: for most husbands and wives, more faith equals better sex. The next time…
February 15, 2024
Harvard (Mis)Leading Housing Study
…“The number of cost-burdened renters reached an all-time high: 21.6 million households (49%). Of this total, 11.6 million spent more than half of their income on housing (26.4% of all renters)….
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…