Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| Student Loan Payroll Tax Increase: Another Attack on Small Business Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has proposed to offset the cost of continuing to subsidize student loans by raising taxes on small businesses to the tune of $9 billion over 10 years... |
| Do Schools Begin Too Early? A one-hour delay in school start time increases standardized test scores on both math and reading tests by roughly 3 percentile points... |
| School Standards Pushback A study released this year by a researcher at the Brookings Institution think tank projected the Common Core education standards will have no effect on student achievement... |
| 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... |
