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Kahlenberg and Lin for Washington Monthly: Time to Teach Three Years of High School Civics

This fall, millions of students are returning to public schools, where they will be regularly tested on how well they are mastering math and reading but not on how well they understand the American ...
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Implementing Workforce Pell

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY • Higher education remains an important avenue for individuals to build the skills and knowledge to succeed ...
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Congress Just Learned an Important Lesson About Collective Bargaining

Four years. That is how long it took the staff of Rep. Ro Khanna, one of Congress’s most outspoken supporters of organized ...
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U.S. Farm Income Down $9 Billion This Year; Expenses Up $5 billion

U.S. farm income down $9 billion this year; expenses up $5 billion THE NUMBERS:  Farm bankruptcies* – 2026 >400? 2025   340 2024   234 2023 150 2022 185 * National Center for Agricultural Law. They ...
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Gold Star Families and Survivors Speak on Deadly Port Shuaiba Attack

This week, Domain Awareness is rather abridged, but we promise it’s for good reason! PPI’s national security team is on the move this week, with Mary Guenther representing at the International ...
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Workforce Pell Could Reach Nearly 200,000 Students, but Schools Can’t Deliver It Alone

The success of the new Workforce Pell Grant program, which for the first time lets federal Pell Grants pay for short-term job ...
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New PPI Report Declares America’s Schools in Crisis, Urges a Bold, Bipartisan Compact for Reform

WASHINGTON — As partisan battles rage over library books, school choice, and the future of the U.S. Department of Education, a new report from the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) warns that both ...
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Trade Fact of the Week: The U.S. digital economy, on its own, would be the world’s eighth-largest economy.

Last December the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis statisticians ventured an estimate of the size of the American “digital economy.” After sifting the “digital” bytes and pixels out ...
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What It Means to Be an American Today: Voices of a New Generation

The key rationale for public education in the United States is, in the words of educator Albert Shanker, to “teach children what it means to be an American.” By that, he meant the shared values found ...
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PPI Finds Latino Families Bear Disproportionate Burden from High Energy Costs

WASHINGTON — Latino families across the United States are disproportionately affected by high energy costs, according to a new report from the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI). The study, “Working ...
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Canter in The New York Times: How Mississippi Transformed Its Schools From Worst to Best

How could Mississippi, with its low education spending and high child poverty, pull it off? It did not do so by relying on some of the most common proposals held up as solutions in education, like ...
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California’s Copper Mandate Ties Up $1 Billion a Year That Could Expand Broadband, PPI Finds

WASHINGTON (September 23, 2026) — California’s requirement that AT&T keep its aging copper telephone network running is tying up $1 billion a year that could instead connect hundreds of thousands of ...