School Accountability:Top-Down or Bottom-Up?

Temporary Assistance for Two-Parent Families in Texas: Reorienting TANF Toward Integral Human Development and Flourishing

Temporary Assistance for Two-Parent Families in Texas: Reorienting TANF Toward Integral Human Development and Flourishing   Key points: TANF was designed to promote two-parent family stability, but current implementation in Texas diverts funds away from this core purpose. Strong empirical evidence shows that children in two-parent households experience better educational, economic, and behavioral outcomes. Texas TANF...

Texas Is Restoring the Proud Story of America

For too long, too many American students have graduated without understanding the country they inherited.  They may know scattered names and dates, but they lack the full context of American history: the greatness of Western civilization, the ideas behind our founding, the sacrifices that built this nation, and the principles that allowed America to become...

Colleges Are At Risk Of Closing. Good.

“You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy” is an increasingly fitting description of the American college graduate. While that World Economic Forum slogan is rightly mocked for its managerial creepiness, jokes aside, the average student nowadays is surely more nihilistic about the world than previous generations. The economic bargain of college, however, is looking increasingly...