Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| 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... |
| 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... |
