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Young Americans need more communal pathways to adulthood than the traditional, four-year college route
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Science Policy Can’t Be Driven by Advocates
Ideology has seeped into federal science funding, highlighting the need for reform
A Glimmer of Hope for American Colleges
New efforts at promoting intellectual diversity on campus could deliver much-needed reform.
It’s Conservatives That Should Be Storming the Ivory Tower
Universities depend on taxpayer money to survive, and they are wasting those funds
Educational Pluralism with Ashley Rogers Berner
Ashley Rogers Berner joins Oren for a discussion of educational pluralism: the key to ensuring choice and standards in K–12 schools.
Men’s Realism
The masculinity crisis is serious but most solutions on offer are not
Sen. Tom Cotton on Education and Rebuilding American Capitalism
Sen. Tom Cotton and Oren Cass discuss the future of conservative economics and the importance of workforce development.
Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: Banning the BA Box
On this episode of Policy in Brief, Oren Cass and Chris Griswold are joined by Jonathan Berry to discuss a proposal to ban bachelor’s degree requirements in hiring.
Policy Brief: Banning Bachelor’s Degree Requirements
Prohibit employers from making a bachelor’s degree a job requirement
Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: Financing Higher Education
On this episode of Policy in Brief, Oren Cass and Chris Griswold discuss how we should finance higher education in the U.S.
Policy Brief: Self-Financing by Colleges
Place higher education’s risks on institutions, not students
Policy Brief: Student Debt Relief the Old-Fashioned Way
Make student debt dischargeable in bankruptcy instead of canceling loans
A Nation of Boys at Risk
After decades of intensive effort and investment to create an equitable education system, not least for girls and women, the nation finds itself with a peculiar predicament: It is boys who are falling behind furthest and fastest.
Where Have All the Young Men Gone?
The question of who would pursue non-college pathways, if they were offered, is one that has bedeviled education reform debates for decades.
After Student-Debt Relief, America Must Move Beyond ‘College for All’
American Compass research director Wells King argues for building real alternatives to the “college-for-all” education pipeline in the wake of Biden’s misguided student loan forgiveness.
Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: The Workforce Training Grant
On the inaugural episode of Policy in Brief, American Compass executive director Oren Cass is joined by policy director Chris Griswold to discuss the Workforce Training Grant, a proposal to create a meaningful alternative pathway to college.
Rebuilding from the College Catastrophe Starts Here
The problem that the American Workforce Act aims to solve is simple, but deadly serious: In American education, all roads lead to college.
Policy Brief: Workforce Training Grant
Congress should create a Workforce Training Grant—a $10,000-per-year grant to employers for each trainee engaged in on-the-job training.
Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness is Wrong. Here’s How to Handle College Debt Instead.
America has turned higher ed into a lavishly expensive sacred cow, and now we’re all footing the bill. Let’s make college debt boring again, argues Oren Cass.
Oren Cass on Student Loan Debt
Oren Cass joins Paul Ollinger for a discussion of student debt, “college-for-all,” and how to rethink our approach to education in the U.S.
