The Demographic Cliff Coming for Virginia’s Schools
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Analysis and Commentary
Family Stability Is Education Policy
Derrick Max | August 20, 2026 (Jefferson Forum) — Scholars Ian Rowe and Brad Wilcox, writing recently in The Wall Street Journal, identified a factor routinely omitted from discussions of student achievement: family structure. When disparities appear in test scores, graduation rates or college admissions, policymakers typically blame school funding, teacher quality, poverty or, more recently,
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We’re Teaching Kids Scarcity in Age of Abundance
Nathan Harden | August 17, 2026 (RealClearWire) — Students head back to classrooms this month. Many arrive already convinced their future is hopeless. In a Lancet Planetary Health study of 10,000 young people across ten countries, 75% said the future is frightening and 56% said they believe humanity is doomed. A 2025 PNAS study found one in five Americans
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