#903: Reducing poverty with the child tax credit, with Angela Rachidi

01/17/24 • 22 min

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Angela Rachidi, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Mike to discuss whether a reformed and refundable child tax credit can reduce poverty. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber reviews a study investigating a cost-effective high-dosage tutoring intervention.

Recommended content:

“How to actually triumph over poverty” —Angela Rachidi, National Review
“The child tax credit: 25 years later” —Angela Rachidi, Senate Committee on Finance
“Congress is about to do something amazing: agree to invest in kids” —Catherine Rampell, Washington Post
Kalena Cortes, Karen Kortecamp, Susanna Loeb, and Carly D. Robinson, “A Scalable Approach to High-Impact Tutoring for Young Readers: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial,” Annenberg Institute at Brown University (January 2024).

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Recommended content:

“How to actually triumph over poverty” —Angela Rachidi, National Review
“The child tax credit: 25 years later” —Angela Rachidi, Senate Committee on Finance
“Congress is about to do something amazing: agree to invest in kids” —Catherine Rampell, Washington Post
Kalena Cortes, Karen Kortecamp, Susanna Loeb, and Carly D. Robinson, “A Scalable Approach to High-Impact Tutoring for Young Readers: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial,” Annenberg Institute at Brown University (January 2024).

Feedback Welcome: Have ideas for improving our podcast? Send them to Daniel Buck at [email protected].

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#902: Reforming New York’s Regents Exams, with Ray Domanico

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Ray Domanico, the director of education policy at the Manhattan institute, joins Mike to discuss whether New York should eliminate the Regents Exams as high school graduation requirements. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber reviews a study investigating the trends in parental school involvement over the past two and a half decades.

Recommended content:

“Revising graduation requirements could improve academic rigor in New York” —Ray Domanico, Education Next
“End-of-course exams and student outcomes” —Adam Tyner and Matthew Larsen
“The accountability conundrum” —Chester E. Finn, Jr., Fordham Institute
Ariel Kalil, Samantha Steimle, and Rebecca Ryan, “Trends in Parents’ Time Investment at Children’s Schools During a Period of Economic Change,” AERA (April 2023).

Feedback Welcome: Have ideas for improving our podcast? Send them to Daniel Buck at [email protected].

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#904: Residential mobility, student achievement, and charter schools, with Douglas Lauen

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Douglas Lauen, a professor of public policy and sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, joins Mike to discuss residential mobility, academic achievement, and charter schools. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber reviews a study investigating how school facilities funding impacts test scores and housing prices.

Recommended content:

“New home, same school: Charter schools and residentially-mobile students” —Doug Lauen
“The charter-school movement just keeps on keepin’ on” —Jed Wallace, Education Next
Barbara Biasi, Julien M. Lafortune, and David Schönholzer, “What works and for whom: Effectiveness and efficiency of school capital investments across the U.S.,” National Bureau of Economic Research (January 2024).

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