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Whatever Happened to the Department’s Competency-Based Education Experiments?
President Obama announced competency-based experiments two years ago but still hasn't happened. It is not enough to announce policy.
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Helpful or Harmful: The Role of School Resource Officers
Law enforcement treating misbehaving children in school as they might treat violent adult offenders happens more frequently than realized.
The Clinton Plan: Everything but the Kitchen Sink
The Clinton plan to make college affordable includes every policy idea in higher education but the kitchen sink.
Give Us the Ballot Podcast
On the heels of the Supreme Court's decision overturning a key part of the Voting Rights Act, is there a new struggle for voting rights?
FCC Protects Public Access to Unlicensed Spectrum
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) held its monthly Open Meeting this morning and voted on rules governing next year’s incentive au
Our Drone Future: Kicking off the NTIA Multistakeholder Process
Waiting for Amazon to start delivering your groceries via drone or hoping you’ll have drone-delivered internet sometime soon? While delivery
New Report Examines Promising New Approach to Boosting Educational Achievement and Economic Mobility
A collection of reports exploring the potential of college savings and Children’s Savings Accounts (CSAs) to promote greater opportunity.
Senate Revokes Cloture on Cyber-Surveillance Bill CISA
Today, Senator McConnell revoked his motion for cloture on the cyber-surveillance bill, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (S. 754).
Unreasonable: The Fourth Amendment and Indefinite Retention of Digital Data
Today, many of our most important and private documents, photographs, and videos only exist in digital form, as ones and zeros that could be
(Dis)Honesty
When we too often go to great lengths to rationalize the stories we concoct, why is it so hard for us to tell it like it is?
2015 College Decisions Survey Part III: Familiarity with Financial Aid
New America’s Education Policy Program released the third in a series of College Decisions Survey briefs that analyze new survey data.
Degrees Denied: Adults Left out of State Financial Aid Programs
Policymakers should consider how to make state financial aid more accessible to students regardless of age.