Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| Michigan City Outsources All of Its Schools In 2011, 48 of Michigan's 793 school districts ran deficits that totaled $429 million, compared with 18 districts with $59 million in combined deficits in 2004-2005... |
| Are Tax Credits the Proper Tool for Making Higher Education More Affordable? About one-third of education tax credits and deductions accrue to families earning over $100,000... |
| The End of Teachers' Unions Technology will break teachers' authoritative control over public education, and will simultaneously correct much of the system's performance problem as well... |
| Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion Using a teacher compensation model centering on aversion to financial loss instead of self-interest in financial gain, students whose teachers were in the loss treatment group showed large and statistically significant in math test scores... |
| Factors in Improving Achievement of Urban School Districts The higher-achieving and most consistently improving urban school districts set clear, system-wide goals and hold staff members accountable for results... |
| Charting a Better Course Though charter schools cover only 4 percent of the country’s public school students, the number of these schools has grown at an annual clip of about 7.5 percent each year since 2006... |
| The Impact of Artificially Low Tuition Studies have repeatedly shown that students subconsciously respond to lower tuition rates by putting forth less effort into their studies... |
| Hidden Barriers to Achieving Both Quality and Profit in Early Care and Education It is difficult for formal for-profit education centers to compete with free or reduced-cost public options for four-year-olds, as they lack the financial reserves made available by government funding... |
| Why the Education Bubble Will Be Worse Than the Housing Bubble From 1976 to 2010, the prices of all commodities rose 280 percent, the price of homes rose 400 percent, and the price of private education rose 1,000 percent... |
| Better Schools, Fewer Dollars While a common complaint is that public schools are underfunded, research indicates that more per-pupil funding does little to improve outcomes... |
