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April 8, 2025
Could A Higher Endowment Tax Pressure Elite Schools To Expand?
…time with this strategy. Yale University in Connecticut has endowment assets of $2,315,032 per student; it would need to increase enrollment from 17,601 to 81,494 (363 percent) to avoid taxation….
April 4, 2025
President Trump’s Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense. It’s Also Based on an Error.
…has been dramatic, with the stock market losing nine percent of its value (based on the S&P 500 index at the time of writing) and forecasted probabilities of a recession…
April 4, 2025
How One State Improved Its NAEP Scores
…teacher across the state. From core instruction to dedicating time in student schedules for tutoring, we have focused on instructional coherence so students experience explicit and systematic phonics-based instruction that…
April 3, 2025
The dangerous myth that poverty is the cause of child abuse
Why does child abuse happen? A new public service announcement says most people think it’s a “bad parent problem,” but the ad suggests “the root causes may be different than you think.”…
April 3, 2025
Trump’s Tariffs Are a Historic Tax Hike
…Times column: Vice President JD Vance argues that Trump “believes in economic self-sufficiency.” Well. To see the benefits of economic self-sufficiency, look to North Korea. Still, Vance is right. Trump is…
March 31, 2025
Reimagining Federal Education R&D: DARPA for Education
…the “business model” of NCER has run its course. I describe that model as “three Fs:” five years, five million dollars, and failure (the length of time of its grants,…
March 31, 2025
Tom Cotton Should Go Further: An Endowment Tax Should Not Exclude Big Foundations
…giving at a time it was desperately needed. We can never tell when such a time will come again. It’s important that charitable giving not be disproportionately concentrated. It’s worth noting…
March 28, 2025
Unfreezing New York’s Projects
…sites in one critical way: these towers are slated for demolition. For the first time since Robert Moses introduced the controversial “superblock” concept to American urban planning, a New York…
March 27, 2025
The Looming Debt Crisis, the Trump Tax Cuts, and Medicaid
…the federal government relied heavily on one strategy to get out from under its war debt: it tolerated inflation. Since debt repayments are set at the time of borrowing, inflation…
March 26, 2025
The Surprising Benefits of “Cooperative” AI
…development of solutions. The friendly generalist may yet have their day. The study also points to how the team use of AI helps drive innovation. Teams with AI had a three-times greater…