Jay Greene is a senior research fellow in the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation.
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How do we know which are the best colleges? Traditional ratings rank schools based on the average GPA or test scores of entering students. But… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The federal government is shut down, at least in part, because Democrats are attempting to reverse Medicaid spending cuts that were enacted earlier this year as part of the “One Big, Beautiful Bill.” Democrats are refusing… Read More
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Where do young people learn that it’s OK to kill over political differences? Look no further than what they’re taught in school. There, college professors… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The Trump administration has focused critical attention on the National Institutes of Health, and for good reason. Despite the importance of its mission, the NIH… Read More
EducationCommentary
Columbia, Brown, and Penn have already settled their disputes with the Trump administration over anti-Jewish, racial, and gender discrimination complaints. Now, several news reports suggest… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Like many an institution that started with a clear, legitimate purpose and drifted left, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has a new name—and,… Read More
Education Commentary
Stop giving money to your adversaries. This should seem like an obvious rule of politics. But until the Trump administration went after funding for NPR,… Read More
Education Commentary
While the Trump administration tries to rein in the political excesses that foster civil rights violations and undermine the reasons for publicly subsidizing higher education,… Read More
LawCommentary
I recently visited the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site and couldn’t avoid seeing similarities to the current conflicts in Los Angeles. In… Read More
EducationCommentary
Once again, Harvard and the Trump administration find themselves in a dispute, this time over whether Harvard can enroll foreign students without providing information demanded… Read More
EducationCommentary
Why do the folks who shout about “following the science” repeatedly object when decisions are made to shutter federal education programs that rigorous research—i.e., “the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Trump administration is threatening to cut $400 million in research funding at Columbia University unless the institution remedies its failure to comply with Title… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Over the weekend, the National Institutes of Health announced that it would be cutting the rate at which it pays universities for overhead on federal… Read More
EducationCommentary
A decade ago, charter schools were heralded as the crowning achievement of bipartisan education reform efforts. But during last week’s National School Choice Week observations, charters… Read More
EducationCommentary
The Donald Trump administration is starting with a bang as it issued an executive order ending diversity, equity, and inclusion in government and severely curtailing… Read More
SocietyCommentary
No one is surprised that the cows in the Chik-fil-A ads advocate for eating more chicken. It would be shockingly irrational, however, if the chickens… Read More
EducationCommentary
A recent study showing that test-score-driven school turnaround models fail to yield long-term improvements may be the final nail in the coffin for technocratic education… Read More
Health CareCommentary
As recently as two years ago, only three states banned surgeries on children to address gender dysphoria, up from just one a year earlier. Today,… Read More
EducationCommentary
One out of every 32 students enrolled in a public university in Nevada is an illegal alien. They have no legal basis for being in… Read More
EducationCommentary
In herdlike fashion, the media describe Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as “folksy,” suggesting that he is just a regular guy with whom Middle America can… Read More
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Party platforms are a way of signaling to voters the policies that politicians are likely to pursue if they’re elected to office. But platforms also… Read More
EducationCommentary
Starting at Columbia University and spreading across elite universities, pro-Hamas protesters have taken over their campuses, erecting tent cities and blocking the normal operations of their schools…. Read More
EducationCommentary
A total eclipse crossed the country this week in a display of natural wonder. Rather than seize the opportunity for an engaging science lesson, hundreds… Read More
Education Commentary
Traditionally, teachers unions have kept a laserlike focus on improving members’ pay, benefits, and working conditions. Now, though, teachers unions are diverting their energies from… Read More
EducationCommentary
Virginia is a very purple state, evenly divided between conservatives and liberals, but its universities are not equally balanced ideologically. A simple way to gauge… Read More
Education Commentary
Numerous and compounding reasons led to Claudine Gay’s removal as president of Harvard University. Her departure, while a necessary first step, does not solve the… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Over the last several years, an odd ritual known as a “land acknowledgment” has become the fashionable way to begin academic, arts, and other elite… Read More
Education Commentary
Anyone who listened to the college presidents defending calls for the genocide of Jews with condescending smirks in their Dec. 5 congressional testimony could see… Read More
Education Commentary
So far, almost all the critical focus on how university leaders have manifestly failed to address rampant antisemitism on their campuses has been aimed at selective, private… Read More
Education Commentary
A central feature of antisemitism is the application of a double standard by treating Jews differently from how other groups would be treated in similar… Read More
