Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| 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... |
| International Benchmarking of Student Achievement Greater use of international tests for benchmarking can be helpful in driving school districts to succeed and avoid malaise... |
| Vouchers Breathe New Life into Shrinking Catholic Schools Catholic elementary schools in Chicago saw enrollment increase 3 percent this year and 1 percent last year -- the first two-year growth spurt since 1965... |
| College Aid Is Corporate Welfare Research shows that colleges respond to aid eligibility by reducing their own aid provided to students... |
| College Rankings Inflation: Are You Overpaying for Prestige? The number of schools in the most competitive category of Barron's Profiles of American Colleges nearly doubled from 44 to 87 between 1991 and 2011... |
| Ghost Students Between the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 school years, Arizona schools spent over $125 million on students who were double counted for school funding due to transferring schools within the first 100 days of classes... |
| Today's Student Loan Recipients Are Tomorrow's Economic Elite Student loans owned by the federal government have grown from $111 billion at the end of 2008 to $425 billion as of December 31, 2011... |
