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1 week ago | 
aei.org | Naomi Schaefer Riley |James Piereson
“We’re not running out of rich people,” Bill Gates recently told David Wallace-Wells of theNew York Times Magazine in an interview about why he was deciding to close the doors of his foundation in 20 years. More than any other sentiment, it is this one that seems largely missing in the world of philanthropy today. Gates was explaining why he decided to sunset the foundation earlier than originally planned.
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1 week ago | 
aei.org | Naomi Schaefer Riley |James Piereson |Howard Husock |Sarah A. Font
Op-Ed Bill Gates Makes a Bet: Foundations of the Future Free Market Op-Ed Bill Gates’ Good Example Op-Ed The Problem with Lived Experience Report American Enterprise Institute America’s Largest Foundations: Examining Payout Rates and Perpetuity Op-Ed Cuomo’s Double-edged School ‘reinvention’ Article Democrats Have Taken over Education Reform Article How Education Philanthropy Can Accidentally Promote Groupthink and Bandwagonism Article 8 Education Stories We’ll Be Reading in 2018 Post AEIdeas...
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1 week ago | 
aei.org | Naomi Schaefer Riley |James Piereson |Benjamin Zycher |Howard Husock
Op-Ed Bill Gates Makes a Bet: Foundations of the Future Free Market Article Bill Gates Approves Op-Ed A Message to Ford Foundation in Gates Spending Approach: Give More Now Post Animated Chart of the Day: World’s Top 10 Billionaires, 2000 to 2022 Post Should Government Create More Silicon Valleys? My Long-read Q&A with Nicholas Bloom Article Capitalism and Celebrity Billionaires: A Poll Report Op-Ed If Rich People Can’t Make Marriage Work, Can the Rest of Us? Post Animated Chart of the Day:...
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3 weeks ago | 
aei.org | Preston Cooper |Frederick M. Hess |Naomi Schaefer Riley |James Piereson
Post Is the Ivy League a Cartel? Event Can Elite Higher Education Reform Itself? Event Rescheduled to a Later Date: The Future of Higher Education: A Conversation with Frederick M. Hess and Christina H.
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3 weeks ago | 
aei.org | Ian Rowe |Naomi Schaefer Riley |James Piereson |Frederick M. Hess
Multimedia Jason Riley: Why Affirmative Action Fails | THE INVISIBLE MEN Op-Ed How Colleges Will Try to Use Race as a Factor in Admissions Without Getting Caught Event The Future of College Admissions: A Conversation with Edward J.
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1 month ago | 
aei.org | Naomi Schaefer Riley |James Piereson |Preston Cooper |Mark Schneider
Op-Ed Financial Aid Follies: The Trump Administration and College Affordability Op-Ed Increasing Financial Aid Isn’t the Solution to High College Costs Report American Enterprise Institute Trends in Net College Tuition and Financial Aid, 1990–2020 Op-Ed If the Education Department Can’t Be Closed, at Least Fix It by Breaking It Up Post The College Enrollment Plunge Is the Biden Administration’s Disaster Op-Ed Watchdog: Education Department Utterly Failed New FAFSA Launch Op-Ed Rhodes and...
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
msn.com | Naomi Schaefer Riley |James Piereson
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
nypost.com | Naomi Schaefer Riley |James Piereson
Higher education is taking a hit. According to new data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, first-year enrollment dropped by more than 5% this year, with enrollment by recent high school graduates dropping by more than 6%. While overall enrollment still grew, this was largely inflated by a sizable pandemic dip — many fewer students enrolled in 2020, and that class just graduated.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
manhattan.institute | James Piereson
On the poll’s sixteen-point mistake. The presidential election is now (thankfully) over, with Donald Trump winning a solid victory over Vice President Harris both in the popular vote (51 percent to 48 percent) and in the Electoral College (312 to 226). The various pollsters did their usual mediocre job in forecasting the ultimate outcome, with many predicting a deadlock in the popular vote or a slim victory for Vice President Harris.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
newcriterion.com | Douglas Murray |James Piereson |Theodore Dalrymple |Larry P. Arnn
Recent stories of note:“Remembering Frank Auerbach, one of the leading artists of his generation, who has died aged 93”Matthew Holman, The Art Newspaper“One of the many mysteries of art is how the Muse picks the most disparate people,” said the German British painter Frank Auerbach in an interview earlier this year. He cited the “hunchback dwarf” Alexander Pope and the “illiterate farm laborer” John Clare, but the muse seems to have singled out Auerbach, too.
