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Commentaries tagged with education

October 29, 2023	The Association for Business and Economic ResearchResearch discovers something no one knows about a problem.
October 22, 2023	Economic Perceptions Driven by Educational and Geographic Differences in ProsperityThe geography of economic opportunity is shrinking.
October 8, 2023	Falling Behind Mississippi Indiana now sends 52.9 percent of high school graduates to college, while Mississippi sends 81 percent.
September 3, 2023	Work From Home Is Here to StayAt least 1 million Hoosiers work from home at least one day per week.
August 20, 2023	Face the Fact: Factory Jobs Aren’t Coming BackFor every factory job Indiana lost since 1973, other industries created seven more jobs.
June 18, 2023	New Labor Market Data Is Eye Opening But Under UsedThere’s been more data created on labor and education in the past 25 years than in the preceding 25 centuries.
June 11, 2023	“Of Boys and Men” by Richard Reeves Is a Must ReadThe gender gap in education is larger than any racial or ethnic gap.
June 4, 2023	Increasing Importance of Summer JobsThese jobs offer an opportunity to learn as well as earn money.
May 28, 2023	Educational Attainment, the 21st Century Fund and the Future of SchoolingIndiana ranks 42nd in educational attainment.
May 14, 2023	Re-Thinking Economic Development A large share of the most mobile families—perhaps half—no longer need to live near where they work.
April 2, 2023	The Five Skills Employers Tell Me They NeedI’ve asked countless numbers of leaders in business, government, military, and organizations.
March 12, 2023	Remote Work and Labor MarketsThere are more remote workers today than there are immigrants in the U.S.
January 22, 2023	Some Labor Market Facts You Won’t Read ElsewhereIndiana is simply not producing a 21st century workforce.
January 15, 2023	Three Types of Public DebtAll types of public debt are effectively transfers of wealth from the future to our present selves.
December 18, 2022	The Anderson Family Scholar HouseThe best assistance for a family comes comprehensively.
November 27, 2022	Economic Optimism and Worry on ThanksgivingThe balance of power between freedom and tyranny has never been this favorable.
October 9, 2022	A Recession Is Time to Think About the Long TermManufacturing employment is now a smaller part of our economy than it was in previous downturns.
September 11, 2022	Benefits and Costs of EducationFor the vast majority of students, college is among the best financial investments they will ever make.
August 28, 2022	Student Loan Forgiveness Is a Policy MistakeThis addition to federal debt during this time risks worsening inflation.
August 7, 2022	It Is Time to Face the Facts About Factory JobsThe education and skills of today’s displaced factory workers don’t match the many available jobs nationwide.
July 24, 2022	Why Are Rich Places Growing and Poor Places in Decline?To participate in a new economy, a community’s workforce must possess the ability to absorb new skills that may be vastly different from what they currently know.
July 17, 2022	My 750th ColumnColumns like mine are designed to help people think about issues they might otherwise not read about.
May 22, 2022	The Undersupply of College Graduates Is Clobbering Indiana’s EconomyNationwide, about 8 in 10 of all net new jobs go to 4-year college graduates.
May 1, 2022	Lilly CEO Speaks to Indiana’s FutureIndiana must better educate a higher share of its young adults and make more communities into places they’d like to live.
April 3, 2022	The U.S. Job Creation MachineNo U.S. state, and very few cities, have more ‘global’ jobs than they did in the spring of 1992.
March 27, 2022	A Tough Two Decades for the Hoosier EconomyMost of Indiana’s job growth this century has been in low-wage work.
March 20, 2022	Quality of Life Spending Is a Conservative PolicyHome prices and wages signal the desirability of communities.
February 6, 2022	Some Surprising Lessons from COVID Learning LossThe median school saw pass rates on standardized tests drop by more than 10 percent.
January 23, 2022	Indiana’s Long-Term Economic Prospects Are PoorState policymakers should be deeply alarmed about a return to a ‘normal’ economy.
September 5, 2021	The Evolving Nature of WorkWork has the potential to provide meaning and satisfaction, unconnected to the economic importance of the task at hand.
August 29, 2021	COVID Reveals Regional InequalityThe latest jobs report captures the geographic clustering of COVID and economic performance.
July 18, 2021	Free Speech and Senate Bill 414The origin of free speech problems on campus lie primarily outside the classroom.
June 27, 2021	School Choice, Cost Savings and Educational SpendingIndiana adopted universal school choice a little more than a decade ago.
May 30, 2021	Pay Shortage, Not Labor ShortageThe most relevant data is not on the quantity of jobs, but the wages that indicate whether or not there is a labor shortage.
May 16, 2021	College Grads and Today’s Job MarketFewer than half of adults with only a high school diploma are currently working, while more than two-thirds with a college degree are working.
May 9, 2021	Mother’s Day Thoughts in the Wake of COVIDThe experience of women in the labor force has differed from that of men in key respects.
April 25, 2021	Polarization of Jobs and PlacesUnfortunately, short-term spending policies aren't likely have much long-term effect on the decline of middle-wage jobs.
April 18, 2021	The Post-COVID World Favors High Quality-of-Place CommunitiesBetween 23 million and 35 million households will find themselves newly unencumbered by the need to live within an easy daily commute to work.
March 28, 2021	What Will This Economic Recovery Yield for Indiana?The quest to better fund schools and improve our workforce cannot become a partisan issue.
March 7, 2021	Our Biggest Economic Challenge Is School Funding Better educational attainment both causes and is caused by a better economy.
February 28, 2021	Teacher Pay Is the Symptom of Deeper ProblemsState spending per Hoosier student is down more than 7.0 percent since 2010.
February 7, 2021	Indiana’s Lagging Educational AttainmentFinancial security without a college degree is possible but not probable.
October 25, 2020	Indiana’s Hidden Fiscal DeficitSince 2009, Indiana slipped in every key measure of long-term growth.
September 6, 2020	COVID-19 and InequalityThe pandemic continues to exert a historic effect on our economy, and we must confront it with honesty, facts and determination.
July 26, 2020	Challenges for Indiana’s Colleges Threaten Long-term GrowthSome of the costs of COVID-19 on US colleges are already emerging.
July 19, 2020	School Re-opening Decision Is Tough, Politicizing Masks Makes It HarderIndiana has about 1.1 million kids in grades K-12, and many have little-to-no high-speed internet access.
July 12, 2020	Assault on Prosperity ContinuesThe U.S. economic loss of foreign college students would be enormous.
June 21, 2020	Changing Dynamics in Modern FatherhoodFamily formation varies depending on race, income, and education level.
February 9, 2020	Back to Basics in Education, and Away from Vocational IndoctrinationThe only skill that we are certain will be needed by today’s kids in 20 years is the ability to learn and master new skills.
February 2, 2020	The College Wage Premium and Indiana’s Slow RecoveryIn the fastest growing urban places, half of all job advertisements are for college grads.
January 19, 2020	Tough Questions Demand Good ResearchUniversity researchers are tasked to ask tough questions and answer them publicly.
December 8, 2019	The Recovery Has Not Been Kind to IndianaIndiana should have enjoyed a far more robust economic recovery.
November 25, 2019	Time for an Education Tax IncreaseNothing predicts the income of a region better than the average education of its citizens.
October 27, 2019	Indiana’s Human Capital Policies Are Causing Brain Drain and Weakening Our EconomyThe nation may not slip into recession, but Indiana now has.
October 20, 2019	Automation Risk, Trade Risk, and Public Policy We have 6 million fewer factory jobs since 1969.
July 14, 2019	Economic Research Points the Way for Different Education PolicyThis column is part of my effort to draw out two or three critical lessons from the last two or three decades and tie them to state policies.
June 30, 2019	Erasing College Debt Is an Astonishingly Bad IdeaTo expand college access, we need to make it less expensive up front, which requires more public investment at the front end of the college experience.
June 16, 2019	My Talk to School SuperintendentsFuture job skills are likely to demand more fundamental learning.
April 14, 2019	We Need to Send 10,000 More Hoosier Kids to College Next YearIf only 20 percent of the gains of higher education are due to actual learning or acquired skills, it may still be the best investment our state and local governments can make.
April 7, 2019	Diverging Regional EconomiesThe places that are most eager to attract new factories are far less likely to get them.
March 24, 2019	A Frank Column on Education, Subsidies and PayWe should be very careful about promoting job training in careers that offer low wages.
March 10, 2019	Lessons Learned from an Economics ConferenceI found two elements very intriguing, and worth sharing in this column.
March 3, 2019	Some Unpleasant News on Education Spending PrioritiesThe State of Indiana funds K-12 education, and school boards pay teachers.
February 24, 2019	Poor Policy Has Weakened Indiana’s EconomyA return “to trend” is not good news for Indiana.
February 3, 2019	Another Brookings Study Marks Indiana “at Risk”Hoosier workforce and education policies have increased our vulnerability to job losses.
January 20, 2019	Indiana’s Labor Markets Aren’t Ready for a RecessionThe long-term effect of a recession is mostly determined by the labor market response of businesses.
September 23, 2018	Critiques of Capitalism All About State and Local PoliciesYoung people turning to our workforce development system will find it focused wholly on supplying workers to businesses rather than offering a resource for career-minded adults.
September 16, 2018	Some Advice for High School GraduatesMost young workers will have to look to the private sector for training.
August 26, 2018	College Starts AgainHere you can entirely reinvent yourself in ways that will never again be possible.
June 3, 2018	Workforce Development Problems Are Deeper Than They SeemSince 1990, the United States has not created a single net new job for workers who have not been to college.
May 20, 2018	School Referenda and Local GovernmentRecent examples reinforce the simple notions of local governance.
February 4, 2018	Most Indiana Counties Should Stop Pursuing Economic GrowthEighty or more Indiana counties are in absolute or relative decline.
January 28, 2018	HB 1315 Is a Pragmatic Fix to Muncie School DilemmaThis school corporation needs a restoration of confidence before it can achieve any real stability.
January 14, 2018	School Financial Problems an Important Issue for This Legislative SessionSchool children in poor areas receive more funding than students in rich areas.
November 12, 2017	Time for More Strategic Thinking on EducationThe skills students need over the long run are those that enable them to master non-routine cognitive tasks.
October 22, 2017	Rustbelt Was Losing People Long Before They Lost Factory JobsIn the 1960s, population decline was already evident in the fated Rustbelt cities.
August 27, 2017	To Afford Small Schools, Merge Small School CorporationsSchool corporations with enrollment of at least 2,000 students enjoy higher pass rates, higher SAT scores, and more advanced course offerings.
August 20, 2017	How an Economic Study WorksEconomic research can help us identify the real problems instead of trying to remedy vague or fictitious ones.
May 21, 2017	Some Hard Truths on School Funding in IndianaThere are four sources of revenues for schools.
April 16, 2017	School Quality Drives Enrollment and Economic GrowthThe ISTEP pass rate is a strong predictor of school enrollment change.
March 12, 2017	We Need Better Planning for Automation-Related Effects on WorkersOur workforce must learn to adapt to automation.
July 10, 2016	Indiana’s Economy: Better than expected, worse than it should beIndiana outperforms the nation in most every metric except education.
June 26, 2016	Income Inequality and EducationThe link between education and earnings is very strong.
June 5, 2016	More Free Speech ShenanigansAs citizens, we must necessarily make judgments about research in which we aren’t experts.
May 29, 2016	unKoch My Campus Is Soros-Funded HypocrisyThe contracts and grants we receive fund research on nonpartisan issues.
May 22, 2016	We Must Take Federal Tax Dollars, then Elect a Better PresidentFederal funding typically amounts to about 10 percent of the budget.
May 15, 2016	Economic Development Conference is a ‘Must Attend’ EventSchool improvement is the first step in modern economic development policies.
May 1, 2016	The Future of Ivy TechA nearby state sets an excellent example of an efficient community college model.
April 24, 2016	Labor Markets Outcomes Value EducationThere are lots of jobs available for workers, but only if they have college degrees.
April 17, 2016	Free Tuition a Gift to Rich FamiliesMost students already receive some sort of tuition discount.
January 31, 2016	Facing Up to the ‘Cost Disease’Modern productivity advances have their limits in the education sphere.
July 26, 2015	A Teacher Shortage?Changes in the unemployment rate and student enrollment levels affect the true supply and demand for teachers.
June 28, 2015	Some Truth about Hoosier School BudgetsToday’s funding is tied to students, not schools.
May 10, 2015	Measuring School QualityMuch of individual student performance depends on the family, not the school.
May 3, 2015	No Jobs for High School Grads Since 2009Job creation has occurred only for workers with an education beyond the high school diploma.
March 8, 2015	Market Forces Have Changed Teacher EducationTwo factors affect enrollment in teaching programs, but not the factors many think of first.
March 1, 2015	We Need to Study, Modify and Preserve TIFIn the coming months we must better understand the characteristics of good and bad TIFs using data, not just anecdote.
February 15, 2015	Jobs Report and the Polarized Labor MarketJob growth was very focused and specific to educational attainment.
November 16, 2014	We Need Thoughtful, Sustained Policies for Growth, Not GimmicksLet's focus on an educated workforce and quality of place.
November 9, 2014	We Need the Right Early Childhood Education ProgramsIn this case, turning down federal funding may actually be the right move.
August 31, 2014	Liberalism on Campus Is Mostly IrrelevantIn my experience, few professors use their political feelings to inspire their coursework.
August 17, 2014	Embrace the College ExperienceFor academic success, nothing replaces pure dogged effort and drive.
April 20, 2014	Taxes and Government ValueAs with any value determination, the price (or tax rate) is only half the story.
February 23, 2014	Assortive Making, Social Mobility and Income InequalityA century ago, most Americans married young and locally, with education playing a much smaller role.
September 15, 2013	School Reform Two Years OnThe U.S. ranks at the top for elementary attainment but at the bottom for secondary (high school) attainment.
August 4, 2013	Reforming Teacher TrainingChanges in the last two years to teachers’ promotion and compensation rules focus on classroom performance.
August 4, 2013	Reforming Teacher TrainingChanges in the last two years to teachers’ promotion and compensation rules focus on classroom performance.
January 27, 2013	Middle Class and Income InequalityThe middle class was built upon an abundance of well-paying but relatively low-skilled jobs.
September 23, 2012	Performance Evaluations and the Way We Teach TeachersPerhaps we ought to entirely rethink the role of teachers colleges.
September 23, 2012	Performance Evaluations and the Way We Teach TeachersPerhaps we ought to entirely rethink the role of teachers colleges.
August 26, 2012	The Arts Matter, When Art Lovers Are FreeThe measurement of value in an artistic endeavor will always lie in the hearts of men and women.
August 26, 2012	The Arts Matter, When Art Lovers Are FreeThe measurement of value in an artistic endeavor will always lie in the hearts of men and women.
August 20, 2012	A College Diploma Is Worthless, but the Education Is Priceless It is the college education that matters most, not the diploma.
August 20, 2012	A College Diploma Is Worthless, but the Education Is Priceless It is the college education that matters most, not the diploma.
August 20, 2012	A College Diploma Is Worthless, but the Education Is Priceless It is the college education that matters most, not the diploma.
June 11, 2012	The Failure of Public UnionsWhat this election portends is a serious conversation about public unions and their benefits.
April 23, 2012	Spending, Debt and Long-Run GrowthThe past four or five years have exposed many Americans to a continuing debate over the role of government spending in a recession and resurrected for them the ghosts of many long-dead economists.
March 19, 2012	It Is the Value Proposition, Not Costs, That Should Drive the Higher Education DebateThe real problem isn’t increasing costs, but uncertain benefits.
March 19, 2012	It Is the Value Proposition, Not Costs, That Should Drive the Higher Education DebateThe real problem isn’t increasing costs, but uncertain benefits.
January 9, 2012	College Debt and College MajorsA growing percentage of college graduates has pursued degrees that offer no employment prospects to match the cost of college.
January 9, 2012	College Debt and College MajorsA growing percentage of college graduates has pursued degrees that offer no employment prospects to match the cost of college.
November 28, 2011	The Super Committee and our Long Term ChallengesAs I write this, I am unsure what the Deficit Super Committee will have done by their Thanksgiving deadline to stall the wayward flight of our national debt.
November 21, 2011	Some Penn State Lessons, Economic and OtherwiseThis cover up isn’t the failure of an idea, but of men.
November 7, 2011	The Skinny on Community GrowthThe quality of the workforce matters more than anything else in the long haul of economic development.
October 24, 2011	Human Capital, Income Inequality and Our FutureMore than half of Americans compete with perhaps two billion men and women worldwide who are better educated and yet willing to work for far less.
August 22, 2011	Vouchers and the LawThe real purpose of vouchers was to add incentives for public schools to improve.
August 22, 2011	Vouchers and the LawThe real purpose of vouchers was to add incentives for public schools to improve.
June 6, 2011	Education and New JobsThe hard truth is that all the jobs lost in the economy that will return already have.
March 21, 2011	Bipartisan Education ReformWe should immediately ban all post-season team sports for schools without at least a C average.
November 15, 2010	The Need for Education Reformers Fixing schools won’t be easy, but it begins with an honest realization of the problem – not mendacious malarkey.
October 25, 2010	Early Childhood Education and the EconomyThe return on investment of early childhood education was clearly positive.
October 4, 2010	An Inconvenient Truth vs. Teachers UnionsExcept for spending, we sit dead last on all measures of schooling among the developed countries.
August 30, 2010	College Majors, Jobs and WagesEven college graduates with degrees in the lowest paying major at graduation were earning on average more than $50,000 within a decade.
August 23, 2010	Good Reads on America’s Car IndustryConsumers got fed up and foreign competitors clobbered the Big Three
June 21, 2010	Recommended Reading These four books are important if you want to be educated about current day matters.
April 19, 2010	Good Local Governance Will Support SchoolsReorganizing school districts is difficult, but we Hoosiers have done so before.
February 22, 2010	Tenure Not Relevant in a Modern UniversityThe continuation of tenure, in its current form, simply abets the disinvestment of relevance in the modern university.
November 16, 2009	Current Expertise Basis for Proposed Teacher LicensingAt the high school level, U.S. student performance has plunged to the bottom of the developed world.
August 24, 2009	Classes Begin and Students Rethink OptionsIn the world today, deep learning matters a great deal.
April 14, 2008	Long Term Prosperity Linked to Education“The most important issue looming for Indiana and the nation as a whole is education.”
April 2, 2008	Educating a Quality Workforce Begins at Home“Focusing investment on low productivity students with potential makes sense.”
February 11, 2008	The School Referendum Debate“Referendums provide the critical link to local government spending.”
October 22, 2007	Wage Inequality in America - A Quick Analysis "The largest and fastest growing source of inequality is due to the supply and demand of educated workers in the United States.”
June 4, 2007	Accountability in K-12 Education "...there are really two basic paths we can take to improve the quality of the graduates of our public schools."
March 12, 2007	Turnabout is Fair Play in Evaluating Education "It's all a form of denial...over the unpleasant truth that we collectively do not value education in Indiana as much as other states do, including our Midwest neighbors."
November 13, 2006	Look Early to Solve the Technology Deficit "The technological dominance that many of us take as a birthright has begun to erode at an astonishing rate."
October 23, 2006	Talent Does Not Come Cheap "...realizing our goals for growth in life sciences or any other knowledge-based sector may prove difficult without a bigger commitment to attracting and paying talent."
July 24, 2006	Education Really Does Matter "...technological change in the U.S. economy has increased the appetite of employers for more educated workers faster than the nation’s colleges and universities have been able to produce them."
March 6, 2006	What It Takes to Recruit Talent "What do prospects see when they evaluate your community against the competition?"
June 25, 2004	Education and the Indiana Workforce "When it comes to job growth and earnings growth in the national economy, the biggest strides have been made in white collar occupations where college degrees are required."
December 12, 2003	Understanding Indiana 's Brain Drain " ... the real problem associated with Indiana 's brain drain is not the exodus of our state's educated people to opportunities in other states."
June 6, 2003	Back to School for the Business Media "As arguments over economic policy routinely pit one advocate's statistics and projections against another's, the business media has too often failed to police the debate and flag the distortions that are inevitably served up by those in the arena. "
February 14, 2003	Rewards to Skill Just Keep Growing "Whichever way you look at it, the distribution of income in this country -- as in other developed nations -- has widened significantly."
October 25, 2002	Educational Attainment Across Indiana: Feast or Famine? "When it comes to counting people with college degrees, the disparity between the have's and have-not's among Indiana counties is quite large."
November 23, 2001	Indiana's Still a Production-Oriented State "Indiana has fewer people with college degrees than any other Great Lakes state."
December 31, 1969	Desert Storm, Twenty Years On . . .A common wartime experience wouldn’t make us agree more, but it should make us more agreeable and less often angry.

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