Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| Is College a Lousy Investment? Just as the housing market suffered from people that borrowed money to add "value" to their homes, so too will the market for higher education... |
| Student Loans: Debt for Life In 2010, student debt exceeded credit card debt for the first time; on average, two-thirds of college graduates ended up with student loan debt of $25,000... |
| The High Cost of College: An Economic Explanation First degree price discrimination occurs when producers learn what each customer is willing and able to pay, thus allowing producers to set individual prices, thereby eliminating competition... |
| College Is No Place for Remedial Education At four-year colleges, about a fifth of all students are in remedial courses... |
| Game Changer Social learning reduces pressures on both families and educators because of the reduced costs and ease of access... |
| College May Never Be the Same Massive Open Online Courses offer the possibility for people around the world to get quality education at little to no cost... |
| A Degree Teachers Can Do Without Removing the requirement for teachers to get a master's degree allows lawmakers to improve the quality of education without changing the current education budget... |
| Putting the Punch in Parent Power Teacher unions, with their strong mobilization and organization have long been able to influence elections -- union-endorsed incumbents have a 92 percent rate of reelection... |
| Could School Choice Erase the Income Gap? In 2011, private schools had a 98 percent graduation rate; in contrast, the 2011 graduation rate for public school children who started high school in 2007 was 75 percent... |
| Public High Schools Are Not Doing Their Jobs According to ACT, only 25 percent of students in the class of 2016 are proficient in English, math, reading and science; more than 25 percent failed to demonstrate proficiency in any subject at all... |
