Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| Solving America's Mathematics Education Problem Attempts to bridge the gap between low- and high-aptitude math students comes at the expense of furthering the education of high performers... |
| Student Loans and College Affordability Despite the rising cost of higher education, the federal government has pursued more actions that subsidize college education through loans and grants... |
| College Debt Hits Well-Off Households with annual incomes of $94,535 to $205,335 saw the biggest jump in the percentage with student-loan debt from 2007 to 2010, the latest figures available... |
| The College-Cost Calamity Long-term debt at not-for-profit universities in America has been growing at 12 percent a year... |
| Public Schools and Money Inflation-adjusted per-pupil school spending has increased over the last century by, on average, 2.3 percent per year... |
| 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... |
