Good News! Students with Disabilities Are Overrepresented in Private School...
Key Points Critics predicted that, once private school choice was implemented on a large scale, students with disabilities would become highly concentrated in the public school system. That hasn’t...
View ArticlePrivate Tutoring Centers—A Bigger Deal than You Think (with Joshua Goodman)
Kumon, Sylvan Learning, Mathnasium, and Huntington Learning Center—these private tutoring chains are familiar names, but they have received little attention from education researchers. According to...
View Article“Behind the Scenes” at the National Academies
Here at THB, I often assemble complex and disparate pieces of information to tell a story that I believe is grounded in evidence and facts. It is rare that such complexity is verified in the...
View ArticleBargaining with the Data Center
A large data center campus can bring billions of dollars of investment and a windfall of tax revenue. It can also use large quantities of electricity and perhaps water, run banks of backup generators,...
View ArticleWho Wins When a State Execution Fails?
“Botched” is a perfectly fine word for golf, cooking or home repair. It seems inadequate for the taking of a life, even the life of Christa Pike, a heinous murderer. In 1996, a jury found Pike guilty...
View ArticleThe Student Loan Default System Moves Beyond the Fax Machine
As of June 2026, 9.3 million federal student loan borrowers were in default, according to the latest federal data. Over five million of those borrowers have been in default since at least 2019—and...
View ArticleThe Date Is Part of the Message
Today is October 7, and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Sarah Lawrence College is planning a “Sunset Vigil for 3 years of Genocide in Gaza” in Remy Amphitheater, the campus’s central...
View ArticleWhat We Can Learn About Traditions from Colorful Fruity Candies
I had not thought seriously about Sunkist Fruit Gems in years, but I noticed that they were missing when I was at a bar mitzvah earlier this year. Their absence made me realize that I had been to...
View ArticleWhy Young Americans Think the Market Has Failed Them
Last week, Gallup released a number that makes perfect sense to me but should worry the nation. For the first time since Gallup began asking the question in 2010, more than 4 in 10 Americans, 43%,...
View ArticleReconsidering Preferred Lender Lists in the Wake of the One Big Beautiful...
Key Points Roughly one in four graduate borrowers are expected to turn to the private student loan market to cover financing gaps created by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s elimination of Grad PLUS...
View ArticleTrump Drug Pricing and the Iron Lung Fallacy
President Donald Trump is trying to best Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in demonizing pharmaceutical companies and using government power to lower drug prices. He announced...
View ArticleThe Missing Measure: Family Structure and Child Outcomes
Family structure is an important factor in understanding child outcomes, yet it is rarely reflected in how government agencies report data. Recent research from the American Enterprise Institute and...
View ArticleDoes a Reduction in the Supply of Oil Make the Economy Stronger?
In a Wall Street Journal Economics Newsletter column citing a new draft paper by Diego R. Känzig and Luca Zanotti of Northwestern University and James H. Stock (KSZ) of Harvard, Grep Ip posits that...
View ArticleDoctor, Patient, and AI
The phrase “humans in the loop” has that made-in-a-(frontier)-lab sound to it, language manufactured to soothe anxiety about artificial intelligence without specifying what the loop is and where we...
View ArticleUniversities Are Studying Their Problems, But Can They Fix Them?
Higher education today is reeling from multiple crises. From the incursion of artificial intelligence into the classroom, to the crackdown on research funding by the Trump administration, the...
View Article“No Accountability, No Justice, and No Integrity”
For years, the American Psychological Association has had a problem it has been unable or unwilling to address, summed up by Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) as a “persistent and pernicious pattern of...
View ArticleStudents Need to Learn to Love America Too
Last week, I sat at the New School, listening to the Mannes Orchestra play Charles Ives’s Variations on “America.” It opened the new Center for the American Experience, on whose advisory board I...
View ArticleSupport Starter Homes, Not Looser Lending or Financial Fixes
Housing affordability has Washington searching for fixes. Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte is considering reducing the number of credit reports required for a mortgage to lower...
View ArticleBlue November Mailbag: The Big Picture
Last week, I shared what I thought a blue wave in November might mean for education, addressing the questions I hear most frequently from journalists and education policy insiders. The column provoked...
View ArticleStudents Are Still Talking—Universities Should Build on That
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s (FIRE) new College Free Speech Rankings tell a now all too familiar story about American campuses. Cancel culture is rampant, with too many...
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