Daniel Cox, Jae Grace, and Avery Shields report disturbing new information about Americans and their neighbors. As Americans spend more of their time online, the neighborhood—once a primary physical location…
Crime is a localized phenomenon that varies greatly from city to city and from neighborhood to neighborhood. As a result, the burden of crime tends to be borne disproportionately by…
Editors at Issues and Insights have learned lessons from Democrats’ responses to COVID-19. New research reveals the enormous harm that pandemic school shutdowns had on students, and that minorities and…
That’s the conclusion of a recent study published by the Stanford Centner for Education Policy Analysis. It’s just one of many reasons why getting rid of standardized tests and relying instead…
Must-read research from Harvard University: Our analysis shows that student cohorts in the charter sector made greater gains from 2005 to 2017 than did cohorts in the district sector. The…
A new working paper finds that people with more income and more wealth really do give more money away. A summary of the paper in the Economist notes The researchers…
U.S. News and World Report sucked me into clicking on a link to their Best States Rankings. I have no idea when it was released this year. Man, what a…
The OECD administers the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests to 15-year-old students from around the world, and results from the 2018 tests were released today. The United States is…
Some findings are persistent, and this is one of those persistent findings, unfortunately. Counties with high poverty, unemployment, and property tax rates also tend to have high lottery sales per adult.
This week, JLF’s Dr. Terry Stoops was quoted by Education Week in an article focused on the racial and socio-economic imbalances between schools in the Wake County public school district.…
Register here for next weeks Shaftesbury Society presentation. UNC Chapel-Hill Professor Michael Jacobs joins us with his presentation that will include data that shows why the only two growing counties…
You may have heard of the Scared Straight program that sought to use prison visits to keep teens on the right side of the law. It did not. The effort…