Confronting Harmful Federal Disability Policy in Health and Human Services
New America’s second Advancing Disability Access Forum examined how recent changes at HHS threaten the health and wellbeing of disabled people, older adults, and children.
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Building a Career Advising Ecosystem: How States Are Redefining Roles for Student Success
Federal Early Education Update: March 2026
Remaking Our Districts: Three Communities on the Edge of America’s School Funding Divide
Lab Director and Senior Fellow Amy J. Nelson Quoted by Slate
New America Welcomes David J. Kilcullen and Peter W. Singer
The College Graduation Rate Flaw That No One’s Talking About
Any discussion of federal graduation rates for colleges will immediately spark a laundry list of concerns about their validity.
The Weekly Wonk: We’re All in the Poverty Fight
Poverty affects far more of us that we might perceive.
States Working to Reduce Pre-K Suspensions
The data show that pre-K students of color are being suspended and expelled at a much higher rate.
New TPM Column on the Next Phase of Education Reform
There’s plenty to fix in the educational system. But that can’t be all that education reform does.
President Obama Announces Pre-K Goal–But Is it Attainable?
President Obama announced a mission to improve the workforce by providing high-quality pre-K to 6 million children by 2020.
For Third Time, APSCU Fails to Get Courts to Strike Down Incentive Compensation Rule
But that is not stopping the for-profit college lobbying group from continuing to call on the Ed Department to stop enforcing the rule.
In Conversation with Fred and Joanne Wilson
Anne-Marie Slaughter sits down with Fred and Joanne Wilson to discuss the future of investment and philanthropy.
When Higher Ed Doesn’t Deliver: A Case Study of Medical-Assistant Programs
Medical-assistant programs often produce graduates with few well-paying job prospects and significant amounts of student debt.