Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| The Crisis of Data in College Admissions The Open Government Initiative has invited the country's top web developers to create applications that unlock federal data and provide it to prospective students in a format they can use... |
| The Promise of Special Education Vouchers In 1976, about 8.3 percent of public-school students were enrolled in special education, while that same population today makes up 13.2 percent of public school students... |
| Our Achievement-Gap Mania By allowing education reform to be driven solely by the needs of low-income, low-performance students, reformers rob themselves of the broad-based support necessary for the more radical restructuring... |
| Pay for Only Four Years of College. Guaranteed. More than a dozen colleges across the United States now offer a new form of protection against rising tuition costs: four-year degree guarantees... |
| Bureaucratic Bloat in Universities Nationally, nonteaching employees in positions requiring a bachelor's degree or better at universities and colleges grew from 9.6 percent in 1976 to 20.7 percent in 2009... |
| Credentials Unrelated to Student Achievement Little to no relationship exists between teacher credentials and the gains that a teacher's students make on standardized math and reading exams... |
| A University Degree No Longer Confers Financial Security Between 1990 and 2007 the number of students going to college increased by 22 percent in North America, 74 percent in Europe, 144 percent in Latin America and 203 percent in Asia... |
| India's Mangled School Reforms India's new school voucher program appeared promising at first, but the program came with regulations that would actually cripple the private school market... |
| Is Higher Education Worth It? Median starting salary for bachelor's degree recipients in 2009 and 2010 was just $27,000, down from $30,000 in the years 2006 to 2008... |
| Can For-Profit Colleges Save Higher Education? Damaging congressional investigations, a bruising fight over new federal regulations and a stagnant economy have all combined to reverse what had been unprecedented growth in for-profit university enrollments... |
