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The Worldwide Fertility Crash Is Bringing Countries Back To Pre-Industrial Birth Levels
2+ hour, 39+ min ago (667+ words) A quiet but continuing worldwide collapse in fertility levels has swept the globe. Most regions of the world are now characterized by sub-replacement fertility1, and every region of the world has at least some sub-replacement outposts. Steep and prolonged fertility decline…...
Australian Social Media Ban Contagion Reaches the UK
1+ week, 3+ min ago (351+ words) The UK ban, like those in other jurisdictions, explicitly derives from the world-leading Australian regulations implemented in December 2025. The measure represents a fundamental shift away from the UK's historic risk'based, platform'duty model of platform constraints in the existing Online Safety…...
Summer Is Still Where Children Are Formed
3+ week, 12+ min ago (853+ words) School is'winding down'and with it ends one of the year's most important experiments: the phone-free classroom." For nine months, schools'supplied the structure. Now'that all'falls'away'and the phone, newly evicted from the classroom, is waiting at home'and a long, unstructured summer is…...
Fertility Continues to Decline
2+ week, 6+ day ago (140+ words) While the AI revolution will improve economic performance, it is not a savior for the worsening federal fiscal situation; to the contrary, it deteriorates matters further. BY Mark J. Warshawsky ON 26 May 26 The Major Richard Star Act would allow approximately 400, 000 military…...
Obvious, Intuitive, Seductive, and Wrong: Why Education's "Instructional Illusions" Feel Right | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
2+ week, 6+ day ago (301+ words) If you've spent any time in schools, you've heard'and perhaps even said'some version of the following: "Students learn best by discovering things for themselves." "Engagement is the surest sign of learning." "Be the guide on the side, not the sage…...
Discussing test scores and the learning recession: Malkus on Fox News' 'Special Report'
3+ week, 1+ day ago (73+ words) Discussing test scores and the learning recession: Malkus on Fox News" "Special Report" American Enterprise Institute - AEI Discussing test scores and the learning recession: Malkus on Fox News" "Special Report" Senior fellow Nat Malkus joins Fox News" "Special Report" alongside…...
The Encampment as Curriculum | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
3+ week, 6+ day ago (206+ words) Read that sentence twice. These are Northwestern undergraduates, many of them juniors and seniors by spring 2024. Their professor is telling us the first time most of them experienced democracy was a tent on a university lawn. If that is true,…...
Schooling Alone | AEI
3+ week, 6+ day ago (1815+ words) Good afternoon'and congratulations to the Class of 2026. To the graduates: This is your day, and you've earned it. To your parents and families: You've earned it, too. And to your teachers: You know better than anyone what it took to…...
Reconnecting Opportunity Youth to Work and a Future
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (887+ words) Imagine a 19-year-old'let's call her Jasmine'who is neither in school nor working. She left high school after a family health crisis and picked up shifts where she could'in a warehouse, food service, and day labor'but nothing stuck. She hears the…...
Schools Shape the Container. They Also Shape the Citizen.
3+ week, 6+ day ago (201+ words) This is the civic stake Burke names but does not press. If we allow AI to become the primary medium through which young people encounter ideas, arguments, and texts, we are not simply outsourcing homework. We are'delegating the formative work…...