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On Tuesday, the Biden administration announced $7.7 billion in student debt cancellation for about 161,000 borrowers, equating to about $48,000 per borrower. Compared to what has already been spent on loan forgiveness since the pandemic began, that's an enormous drop in a gargantuan bucket.
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If you oppose loan forgiveness on principle, you will see Biden's promise as a bad thing. However, if you support it in principle, you should really think about how much debt cancellation you are willing to bear. It's not an abstract question.
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Should the federal government spend substantially more to help schools rectify pandemic learning loss, address chronic absenteeism, or ameliorate other acute pandemic-related problems? That sounds like a debate worth having.
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In the next installment of AEI's Education Policy Debate Series, we're bringing together four Democrats to debate the motion: "My fellow Democrats, we should embrace ESAs." Join us on Thursday, Feb. 29, here at AEI to hear Democrats duke it out.
The post It's National School Choice Week. Democrats: What Do You Think? appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

Across the country, about one in 10 students is absent on a given day. That is bad for achievement, odds of graduation, and a number of long-term markers of success. This is the greatest post-pandemic challenge for public schools.
The post Ninety Percent Student Attendance Won't Solve Chronic Absenteeism appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

The first in a set of two articles outlining the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the education achievement gap as demonstrated by Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) scores.
The post A Decade of PISA Scores Shows Alarming Achievement Gap Growth appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

On The Report Card, the education policy podcast from the American Enterprise Institute, I interview some of the most interesting figures in education. Suffice it to say, this year was full of fun and interesting conversations—on school board elections, on education savings accounts, on student loan forgiveness, and on so much more. So, as we come […]
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The first in a set of two articles outlining the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the education achievement gap as demonstrated by Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) scores.
The post What the Latest Round of PISA Scores Shows about How the Pandemic Affected the Achievement Gap appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

The pandemic posed incredible challenges for the nation's schools, from emergency remote instruction, to managing the return to in-person schooling, to negotiating mask mandates, falling enrollment, and historic learning loss. Let's put some numbers to the crisis.
The post AEI's Return to Learn Tracker Adds Dismal Data on Chronic Absenteeism appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

For the past several years, discussion of higher education policy in the media and in Washington has revolved around student loan debt. Yet with all the discussion, there has been little progress made on rectifying the issue.
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The Biden administration has already forgiven an incredible $317 billion in student loans. With more forgiveness from current sources already in the works, and new sources of forgiveness planned by the Biden administration, here are three simple takeaways from this updated total.
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Only teachers can adequately communicate the urgency of making up pandemic learning loss to parents. Unfortunately, if recent developments in Albuquerque are any indication, many parents won't get that needed message from their students' teachers.
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Artificial intelligence is coming to American classrooms, and teachers will need to rethink the essay, the problem set, and the reading assignment. It's not clear what the solution to this challenge is, but teachers need to be made aware of the problem and they need spaces in which they can collectively think up solutions.
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What is being done to combat pandemic learning loss is clearly not enough. Not close to enough. Even more worrisome, the unprecedented federal pandemic recovery funds that are meant to help students dig out of a deep hole will run dry in a little over a year.
The post This School Year, Recovery from COVID Learning Loss Went the Wrong Direction appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

Academic achievement is down for American students as they enter high school, particularly for our lowest-performing students. Nothing less than Herculean efforts will make up for such shortfalls.
The post Long-Term Trend Assessments Are Devastating—Especially for the Lowest Achievers appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.