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3 weeks ago | 
aei.org | Nat Malkus |Frederick M. Hess |Andrew J. Rotherham
A lot has happened over the past couple of weeks. The Trump administration announced that it would go after Harvard’s ability to enroll international students. A judge ordered the Department of Education to rehire the employees it had fired. And the Supreme Court split 4–4 on Oklahoma’s religious charter school. —And all of that was just on May 22. On this episode of The Report Card, Nat Malkus discusses these developments, and more, with Andy Rotherham and Rick Hess.
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3 weeks ago | 
aei.org | Nat Malkus |Frederick M. Hess |Andrew J. Rotherham |Jonathan Haidt
Podcast American Enterprise Institute 2024 in Review Podcast American Enterprise Institute
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1 month ago | 
aei.org | Ramesh Ponnuru |Nat Malkus |Frederick M. Hess |Andrew J. Rotherham
Op-Ed Trump Is Right: Those Student Loans Need to Be Repaid Podcast American Enterprise Institute Education and the Second Trump Administration, 121 Days In Post Colleges Must Help Return Student Borrowers to Repayment Op-Ed Republicans Unveil Plan to Rein in Student Debt and Waste in Higher Education Press Discussing Student Loans: Cooper on CNN This Morning Op-Ed What’s in House Republicans’ Student Loan Overhaul Report American Enterprise Institute Sketching a New Conservative Education...
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1 month ago | 
aei.org | Nat Malkus |Frederick M. Hess |Andrew J. Rotherham
On this episode of The Report Card, Nat Malkus, Andy Rotherham, and Rick Hess break down the latest on the education policy landscape.
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1 month ago | 
aei.org | Nat Malkus |Frederick M. Hess |Andrew J. Rotherham
It’s day 107 of the second Trump administration, and a lot has happened over the last two weeks. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases that sit at the intersection of schooling and religious liberty. Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a massive ESA bill into law. President Trump signed a raft of executive orders on education. And the Trump administration continued its fight with Harvard.
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1 month ago | 
aei.org | Robert Pondiscio |Nat Malkus |Frederick M. Hess |Andrew J. Rotherham
Op-Ed Teaching in the Age of School Choice Event Addressing the Attendance Crisis: New Research on Chronic Absenteeism Since the Pandemic Op-Ed Trump’s 100 Days: The Good, the Bad, and the Confounding Podcast American Enterprise Institute Religious Charter Schools?
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2 months ago | 
aei.org | Nat Malkus |Frederick M. Hess |Andrew J. Rotherham
It’s day 93 of the Trump administration, and the education landscape hasn’t yet calmed down. The Trump administration has gone after Harvard, and Harvard is fighting back. The Trump administration has revoked the visas of hundreds of international students. NAEP is being scaled back. Iowa requested a waiver from the Department of Education to exercise more flexibility in how it spends federal funds. And two Supreme Court cases might alter the relationship between religion and public education.
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2 months ago | 
aei.org | Nat Malkus |Frederick M. Hess |Andrew J. Rotherham
A lot has happened in the education world over the last few weeks. President Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education. The Trump administration has taken aggressive actions targeting elite universities and has threatened to withhold funding from K–12 schools over DEI programming. And the Department of Education said that states would lose nearly $3 billion in COVID relief funds after prior extensions on spending deadlines were rescinded.
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Mar 19, 2025 | 
aei.org | Nat Malkus |Frederick M. Hess |Andrew J. Rotherham
Last week, more than 1,300 individuals at the Department of Education were laid off, including over 300 at Federal Student Aid, nearly 250 at the Office for Civil Rights, and over 100 at the Institute of Education Sciences. All told, since Trump took office, the workforce at the Department of Education has been cut nearly in half. What is the operating strategy behind these cuts? What effect will these cuts have on schools? And what do these cuts tell us about the Trump administration’s plans?
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May 21, 2024 | 
bellwether.org | Andrew J. Rotherham |Chad Aldeman |Lynne Graziano |Andy Jacob
When is someone considered an adult? Throughout modern American history, policymakers have usually addressed these questions piecemeal, without much regard for the standard they or their predecessors set on other issues. The result is a patchwork of policies on age restrictions without a clear set of guiding principles — mirroring society’s broader lack of clarity about what “adulting” means in 2024.
