Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| Colleges Shedding Non-Core Operations Over the past decade, state appropriations per full-time student fell more than 20 percent across the country... |
| Does School Choice Reduce Crime? Social cost of crimes for students randomly selected via lottery to attend a chosen high school were $7,084 versus $12,500 for students not selected... |
| Why Do So Many Americans Drop Out of College? According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, just 46 percent of Americans complete college once they start, worst among the 18 countries it tracks... |
| 2012 ABCs of School Choice The 2012 edition of the ABCs of School Choice provides in-depth profiles of each voucher, education savings account, tax-credit scholarship, and individual tax credit or tax deduction program in the United States... |
| U.S. Education Reform and National Security More than 25 percent of students fail to graduate from high school in four years, and for African-American and Hispanic students, this number is approaching 40 percent... |
| Census Data Shows Inequality Linked to Education, Not Taxes Just 8 percent of those at the lowest income level have a college degree while 78 percent of those earning $250,000 or more have a college degree or advanced degree... |
| Student-Loan Debt Tops $1 Trillion The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau estimates total student debt outstanding appears to have surpassed $1 trillion late last year... |
| The Federal Student Loan Program Is Expensive In most years, taxpayers will spend about three times as much on the federal student loan program as they do guaranteeing home mortgages through the Federal Housing Administration... |
| Reducing Federal Aid Key to College Affordability Only 55 percent of first-time, full-time bachelor's degree seekers at public institutions finish their degree within six years... |
| Can Online Learning Reproduce the Full College Experience? With 58.5 percent of traditional college students opting to live at home, physical independence is no longer an integral component of the traditional college experience... |
