Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| Great Teaching One year of instruction with a teacher in the top 5 percent of value-added measure ratings resulted in immediate end-of-year test scores gains of 4 percent of a standard deviation... |
| Putting the Schools in Charge In a country of hundreds of thousands of schools, it makes more sense for schools to be given the resources to fix their own problems than for far-off governments to prescribe solutions... |
| Let the Dollars Follow the Child The federal government should absolve itself of many of its funding priorities in education and instead provide this money directly to schools... |
| Between Efficiency and Effectiveness For-profit schools focus on the customer experience and satisfaction, resulting in an evaluation approach that emphasizes ongoing user or customer feedback to drive product improvements or management decisions... |
| States Must Reject National Education Standards While There Is Still Time The Common Core State Standards Initiative undermines competition among differing curricula, thereby limiting the ability of the best course packages to rise to the top... |
| Education Slowdown Threatens United States When baby boomers born in 1955 reached age 30, they had about two years more schooling than their parents; in contrast, when Americans born in 1980 turned 30 in 2010, they averaged about eight months more schooling than their parents... |
| Key Points and Commentary from the NCPA Colloquium on Restructuring Public Education Business, education and elected officials came together at the National Center for Policy Analysis' first Education Colloquium on February 23 to discuss challenges and reform opportunities for public education... |
| 2013 Education Budget and Blueprint: A Costly Expansion of Federal Control The president's FY 2013 budget request includes a 2.5 percent increase (over 2012 levels) for the Department of Education -- the single largest funding increase of any domestic federal department... |
| School Vouchers Gain Ground Nineteen states and Washington, D.C., have either voucher systems or "scholarship" programs that provide tax benefits to individuals and businesses for contributions that help pay for students to attend private school... |
| The High Cost of Low Community College Graduation Rates In 2009, the last year for which the federal government has reported data, close to 400 community colleges had graduation rates less than 15 percent... |
