Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| An "American" Approach to K-12 School Reform The United States must embrace its historical background in entrepreneurialism and business innovation by recognizing the value of various for-profits and non-profits in education... |
| Why 2011 Is the Year of the School Voucher The cost of a traditional voucher is less than the cost of educating a child in public school... |
| Academic Value of Non-Academics The odds of attending college were 97 percent higher for kids who took part in school-sponsored activities for two years than for those who didn't do any school activities... |
| Prioritizing Teaching Quality in a New System of Teacher Evaluation Comprehensive teacher evaluation will require direct observation and recognition of teacher skills... |
| Assessing the Compensation of Public School Teachers Teachers receive salary and benefits that are 52 percent greater than fair market levels... |
| The Promise of Online Learning and Education Savings Accounts Initial empirical studies suggest that students who use to any degree some form of online learning perform better academically... |
| Student Loan Debt Shows High Cost of Federal Aid An increase in the average student loan of $1 was associated with net tuition that's 93 cents higher at public schools and 55 cents higher at private schools... |
| What We Spend on, and Get from, Higher Education Whether one examines taxpayer dollars in total, per enrollee, per degree or per tax-paying citizen, real spending on higher education has gone up... |
| School Choice in Texas The waiting list for Texas' 185 charter schools increased from 17,000 in 2008 to 40,000 in 2009... |
| Obama's Student-Loan Order Saves the Average Grad Less than $10 a Month Over the past 10 years, the average student loan debt varied from $17,464 to $27,204 -- meaning that with a 0.5 percent decrease in rates the average graduate stands to gain between $4.50 and $7.75 per month... |
