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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
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 24, 2025
The Student Loan Payment Pause Was a Catastrophic Mistake
…pause might end, but then the federal government extended it eight times. The president announced that he would forgive your loans. The Supreme Court knocked him down. Then the president said…
March 21, 2025
Increasing Financial Aid Isn’t the Solution to High College Costs
…federal Pell Grant, which advocates claim has lost its “purchasing power” over time. This narrative is misleading. In fact, policymakers have made financial aid programs such as Pell Grants far…
March 20, 2025
To Transform K-12 Education, the Trump Administration Should Measure What Matters
…up in stable two-parent homes enjoy, on average, more quality adult time, greater economic resources, and increased emotional support from their parents. More than a decade ago, the obvious relevance…
March 17, 2025
Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood
…clearly dissatisfied with the male status quo has forced some otherwise progressive thinkers to admit something’s changing. Recently on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” former Congressman Tim Ryan, a Democrat…