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November 15, 2024
JD Vance is Right: Reduce the Power of Big Foundations to Help Charity
…mark for the first time. Over the past five years, foundation assets have grown from $1 trillion in 2018 to the current high due to a favorable investment climate and…
November 14, 2024
The Rotting of the College Board
…secondary educational institutions serving the Baby Boom generation. Standardized tests were designed to help solve this problem. And the College Board was, after a time, not the only third-party group…
November 14, 2024
Florida, the Forgotten Education-Reform Star
…handsome dividends. Florida was one of only five states where NAEP scores for fourth-grade reading did not decline during the Covid years, i.e., between 2019 and 2022. Over that same time period,…
November 13, 2024
How Trump Might Fulfill His Higher-Education Campaign Promises
…each issue in turn. Accreditation reform On the campaign trail, Trump devoted an unusual amount of time to accreditation reform. “The accreditors are supposed to ensure that schools are not…
November 12, 2024
The National Assessment of Educational Progress Recompete: Is It Real Change or Lipstick on a Pig?
Key Points The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has a congressional mandate to assess American students’ academic performance over time. Unfortunately, the bureaucratic processes to select NAEP’s contractors have…
November 12, 2024
Government Contracting for “America’s Report Card” Is Broken
…Known as the “Nation’s Report Card,” NAEP is a Congressionally-mandated program that assesses the knowledge and skills of American students over time. It is the largest such assessment and provides…
November 12, 2024
Irresistible Policy, Meet the Unmovable Labor Market
…many of these occupations) is 89.5 percent. Training new workers, assuming eligible, willing candidates step forward, will take time. These are also strenuous occupations that often take a significant physical toll,…
November 10, 2024
The Risks of Nonprofit Local Journalism
…potential readers. Indeed, in my time as a general-assignment reporter, circa 1973, for the Middletown (NY) Times-Herald Record, I won my spurs, after my probationary period, by covering the travails of…
November 9, 2024
NYC Safe Injection Sites Reduce OD Deaths—but Not in the Worst Neighborhoods
…encouragement rather than prevention. Are the OnPoint Centers treating established addicts or encouraging new ones? Langone and Brown must look at who is being served over time—the same addicts or…
November 8, 2024
It’s Time for Conservatives to Reclaim Our Place in Ed Reform
…and one party’s candidates started snogging with people sworn to kill school choice,” observed Bob Bellafiore, a long-time ed reform advocate who was New York State’s first charter authorizer. “This…