Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| Number of U.S. Adults with College Degrees Hits Historic High In 2011, three in 10 adult Americans held bachelor's degrees, representing a historic high... |
| Restructuring Public Education for the 21st Century The United States' secondary education graduation rate was 76 percent in 2009, six percentage points behind the OECD average of 82 percent, says Linus Wright, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Defining the Federal Role in Education More than half of all parents participate in some form of school choice, ranging from moving to a given neighborhood to gain access to a certain school to paying for private school... |
| Turning Around Low-Performing Schools Scrutiny and criticism of the education system has increasingly targeted low-performing schools, primarily in urban areas... |
| Education Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor, Studies Say The gap in standardized test scores between affluent and low-income students has grown by about 40 percent since the 1960s... |
| Giving Colleges Some "Skin in the Game" If colleges were forced to maintain a 10 percent first-loss share in the credit performance of the loan, their incentives to charge reasonable tuition would be strengthened... |
| Do We Need the Department of Education? Though the Supreme Court has undoubtedly legalized the federal government's intervention in education, nowhere in the Constitution is it even hinted that the government should be involved... |
| Outsource Your Kid Across the United States, college seniors who used loans to help fund their education owed an average of $25,250 upon graduation in 2010... |
| Report Card on American Education Despite ranking 47th in education performance, Missouri was the only state to receive an A-grade when it comes to education policy... |
| Who Should Have Access to Student Records? All 50 states and Washington, D.C., collect long term, individualized data on students' performance; only eight states allow parents access to their child's permanent record... |
