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April 15, 2025
Is There Really Pent-Up Demand for Ten Times the Manufacturing Jobs We Have?
…manufacturing work per se, as opposed to preferring a job to no job or full-time work to part-time work. Among full-time workers, 22 percent agreed they’d be better off in…
April 15, 2025
Utah Hands Parents the Keys to the App Store
…discovered something chilling. Despite their best efforts to set up parental controls and screen time limits, their son had been relentlessly fed pro-suicide content by TikTok. The “safety features” they…
April 11, 2025
How The Trump Administration Can Address The Student Loan Nonpayment Crisis
After the federal government suspended student loan repayment for four and a half years, payments are finally due again—yet less than half of borrowers are repaying their debts on time. These high…
April 9, 2025
Measuring and Building Human Leadership in an AI World
…toward dynamic, performance-based assessments that reflect how people lead in real time. Training programs could be better targeted, focusing on developing the communication habits and social reasoning that matter most….
April 9, 2025
Trump’s Tariff Formula Is Still Wrong. Maybe That’s Why No One Will Admit They Created It.
Last Friday, we showed that the Trump Administration’s tariff formula contained an error that made its calculated tariffs up to four times too large. The entire premise of the administration’s…
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…