Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| The Scourge of Government "Affordability" Columbia University looked at federal aid data from 1996 to 2008 and found that, on average, colleges raised tuition $17 in response to every $100 of Pell Grant aid... |
| Poor Results for High Achievers A recent study found a 30 percentile drop in grades for those who were barely admitted to gifted and talented programs... |
| Milwaukee Parental Choice Program Enrolling in a private high school through the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program increases the likelihood of a student graduating, enrolling in a four-year college, and persisting in college by 4 to 7 percentage points... |
| What Research Says About School Choice Among voucher programs for public education, random-assignment studies generally find modest improvements in reading or math scores, or both... |
| 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... |
