Education Schools Prioritize Activism over Teaching
Daniel Buck, my colleague at the American Enterprise Institute, has just published an important new study of America’s graduate schools of education. The study has deservedly generated attention...
View ArticleCharting a New Course on Homelessness Policy
Walk-ins will not be accepted. You must be pre-registered to attend. Homelessness has become one of the most contested policy challenges facing American cities, with many disagreeing over what actually...
View ArticleTaking Us for Fools
One of the most brazen—and successful—propaganda campaigns sits out in plain sight. I am referring to the concerted effort by climate advocates to create a belief that “climate change” causes bad...
View ArticleWhat Teachers Should Learn: An Alternative Graduate School Curriculum
Earlier this month, I released a report reviewing coursework at ten graduate schools of education across the country. I won’t rehearse the findings at length here. Think lots of “queering education”...
View ArticleWhy Is New York Covering Up Test Scores?
Eva Moskowitz, the formidable head of one of the nation’s most successful charter school networks, recently explained in an op-ed why she is suing New York State’s Education Department over its...
View ArticleNYC’s Illogical Leftists Get Slapped by Beach-Season Reality
On the surface, it looks like something unusually positive in New York City politics: a City Council proposal that would directly improve quality of life for the poor at little cost. Queens Democrat...
View ArticleHow Trump Can Solve His Yemen Problem
Iran opened a new front last week in its war with the U.S., and President Trump has yet to adjust. That spells trouble for his laudable efforts to degrade the Iranian war machine, destroy its nuclear...
View ArticleHow BEAD Restructured and Saved $21 Billion
In 2021, Congress instructed the U.S. Department of Commerce to create the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, an operational framework to expand high-speed broadband access in...
View ArticleThe Brewing Revolution in Public Housing
Historically, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has been associated more with forgettable secretaries and crony development scandals than with improving the lives of the poor. But a...
View ArticleCollege Students Deserve Better Data
Millions of students are beginning their final year of high school, which means their next big decision is whether and where to go to college. But a high school senior who wants good information about...
View ArticleBolsheviks? The DSA Is Only Cosplaying Revolution.
The Democratic Party is not in the grip of a “Bolshevik revolution,” as House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) claimed from the stage of the GOP’s midterm convention last week in Dallas....
View ArticleTrump Wants U.S. Citizens? So Give Them to Him.
Democrats are quickly moving to block the Trump administration’s latest effort to change the 2030 Census by adding a question about citizenship status and excluding undocumented immigrants and...
View ArticleDon’t Count on Those $5,000 Trump Dividend Checks
At his party’s midterm convention in Texas, President Donald Trump said that, if Republicans retain control of Congress in November, he “will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United...
View ArticleHow Albany Educrats Turned NY’s Once-Proud Schools into a National Joke
New York state once believed poor children could meet high expectations. This week, the Board of Regents showed just how far Albany has retreated from that conviction when it chose to further erode...
View ArticleThe Smithsonian’s Neutrality Complex
The ongoing dispute over how the Smithsonian should present American history has pitted the Trump administration against the museum organization’s leadership, much of the mainstream media, and many...
View ArticleSocial Media Bans for Kids: Do They Work?
Governments are increasingly turning to social media bans to keep minors safe online. But what does early evidence from these legislative changes tell us about how effective they actually are? What...
View ArticleAnthropic’s Win Exposes the Dangers of Hollow National Security Claims and...
A San Francisco federal court recently ruled that the Department of War (DOW) and its secretary, Pete Hegseth, “violate[d] the First Amendment” by unlawfully retaliating “against Anthropic for...
View ArticleThe Big Flaw with Ed-Tech Tutoring Isn’t Technological
Educators have a lot of questions about AI. As do I. Well, when I need practical takes on ed tech, I turn to the ever-thoughtful Michael Horn—lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education,...
View ArticleSchools Didn’t Forget America 250. They Just Decided to Ignore It
My son and I spent the summer immersed in American history. For the Fourth of July, we drove down to Colonial Williamsburg to hear the Declaration of Independence read aloud from the balcony of the...
View ArticleBuilding More Starter Homes Could Expand Latino Homeownership
View Full Text Building More Starter Homes Could Expand Latino Homeownership Tobias Peter, Senior Fellow and Codirector, AEI Housing Center Edward J. Pinto, Senior Fellow and Codirector, AEI Housing...
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