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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…
March 26, 2025
How Large Would SNAP Be? Simulating the Size of SNAP Based on Changes to the Unemployment Rate
…had the program’s size varied over time only with respect to the unemployment rate. Using a base year of 2000, we find that if SNAP’s caseload had varied based on…
March 25, 2025
AI Talent: It’s Not Just for High Tech Anymore
…gain real-time access to massive hard-to-coordinate internal data. AIG is opening an “innovation center” in Atlanta, Georgia to improve underwriting and claims, as well as design and test other AI applications. In…
March 25, 2025
Less Than Half of Student Borrowers Are Paying Their Loans
…pre-pandemic, but they mostly occurred among borrowers who already had a rocky credit record. Most pre-pandemic student loan defaulters had credit scores below 600, and they were roughly three times…
March 25, 2025
Reimagining Federal Education R&D: IES, Workforce Skills, and State Leadership
…tracking performance over time was illustrated with its 2024 results, which provided a window into the nation’s struggle to recover from the Covid pandemic’s harmful effects on learning. Especially important are NAEP’s…
March 24, 2025
Keeping Medicaid Sustainable While Prioritizing the Vulnerable
…In this event, hear experts weigh in on the most promising ways to balance fiscal responsibility and provide health care to the needy. Submit questions to Tim[email protected] or on X with #AEIMedicaid. If…