An AEI survey found that when asked to think of the cost for a low-income student, a majority of parents do recognize a distinction between sticker price and “net price after aid.” Yet, low-income parents often tend to overestimate the net price of college attendance.

Six in ten families rule out some colleges because of sticker price, yet many do not know that the “net price” is typically far lower. Proactively teaching parents—especially those with lower incomes—to think in terms of net price is critical.

Do Americans need grief counselors, traumatologists, emotional intelligence coaches, and other experts to guide them through the trials of life? Are our children at risk of psychic harm from strict teachers and competitive games like tag and dodge ball? AEI scholars and best-selling authors Christina Hoff Sommers and Sally Satel...

There are few behaviors more deserving of stigmatization than addiction.

This panel will discuss trends in college graduation rates and dropout rates, based on a new AEI report.

It is human nature to sometimes feel sad, frustrated, angry, resentful, or insecure. But human nature is not a pathology in need of a cure.

The refusal to confront the relationship between intelligence and success in college has produced a cascade of harms--to many students who try to go to college, to those who do not, to the system of higher education, and to the nation as a whole.

Will Americans actively defend the traditional creed of stoicisim and the ideology of achievement, or will they continue to allow the nation to slide into therapeutic self-absorption?