Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| More Spending Doesn't Lead to Higher Test Scores Between 1968 and 2010, real spending per student increased by 95 percent, yet from 1972 to 2010, SAT scores among California high school student dropped by 4 percent... |
| Critical Issues in Assessing Teacher Compensation Studies show that it is not below-market salaries that ostracize high-quality teachers, but hiring practices that ignore important qualifications such as college grade point averages and specialized degrees... |
| Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain All else equal, a student with one excellent teacher for one year between fourth and eighth grade would gain $4,600 in lifetime income... |
| States Hit Turbulence in School Overhauls Hawaii, which qualified for $75 million in Race to the Top funding, has been warned by the U.S. Department of Education that they might have their funding revoked if they cannot get their reform plans back on track... |
| The Excellence Gap According to the National Center for Education Statistics, only 6 percent of U.S. undergraduates currently major in engineering, compared with 12 percent in Europe and Israel and closer to 20 percent in Japan and South Korea... |
| Everything You Know About Education Is Wrong Class size, per-pupil spending and the number of teachers with certifications or advanced degrees have nothing to do with student test scores in language and math, according to a recent study... |
| For-Profit Higher Education Entrepreneurial for-profit schools can move much faster to create new programs, adjust staffing levels and change curricula... |
| U.S. Universities Feast on Federal Student Aid In the short-term, the number of slots at traditional colleges and universities is relatively fixed; a boost in student aid that increases demand is therefore likely to be reflected in prices rather than expanded enrollments... |
| The Root Cause of Market Failure in Higher Education Alternative means of career training, such as plumbing apprenticeships, get no social respect, despite the fact that skilled plumbers can out-earn most liberal arts majors... |
| College Does Pay Off, but It's No Free Ride Potential college attendees need to be made more aware of the benefits and costs of college before investing... |
