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July 18, 2023
The Education Community’s Views on School Improvement Have Fundamentally Changed
…year. Raise teacher pay, make pay performance-based and market-sensitive, and require teachers to demonstrate content mastery. All of these recommendations sought to make the traditional school systems more rigorous, time-consuming,…
July 17, 2023
The Problem with Lived Experience
…be ignored and are not irrelevant in policymaking. Policies are made all the time based on rare events—New York City has window guard policies to prevent children from falling out…
July 16, 2023
When Office Perks Become Perils
…work. It’s the rest of our lives. We do not value time as much as we value money. The young people he interviews who end up taking time off from…
July 15, 2023
Yonkers’ Only Charter School Illustrates Just How Broken the System Is
…about $26,800 per student, CSEE spends only $16,800. Still, when it came time to add a high school, the New York State Board of Regents told the administration that they…
July 13, 2023
The Test Isn’t the Problem
…only seven of 762 students in this fall’s incoming class are black, down from 11 in 2022 and eight in 2021. As the New York Times put it, “The annual numbers traditionally…
July 12, 2023
New York Rent Control: Could the End be Near?
…Census report found that rent-regulated units have twice as many leaks, three times as many heating breakdowns, and three times as much mold. A third of them have “rodents” (almost…
July 10, 2023
Reforming the EITC to Reduce Single Parenthood and Ease Work-Family Balance
…combined work if they wish to have one parent spend more time caring for the children. Consider a married couple with two children where, as above, one parent makes $20,000…
July 8, 2023
Why the End of Affirmative Action Is Good for Black Science Students
…that overall UC graduation rates improved among black and Hispanic kids. (Perhaps that’s why a much-discussed New York Times story from this past weekend looking at the use of “adversity scores”…
July 7, 2023
With Affirmative Action Gone, We Should Focus Admissions Policies on Poverty
…Antonin Scalia’s analysis of the “Lemon test” that used to govern religious freedom jurisprudence, race-conscious policies are like a character in a horror movie: no matter how many times courts (and voters)…
July 3, 2023
Child Welfare’s Ideological Enforcer
…on social media, where he spends his time attacking rigorous academic research, encouraging social media mobs to insult others in the field, and even demanding that journals stop publishing work…