Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| Are Texas' Schools Really that Bad? Texas' education system generates scores that the average state would spend an extra $6,350 per pupil to produce... |
| Low Standards for Education Majors In many education courses, A grades are heavily predominant; in some, every student gets an A... |
| Indiana Voucher Program Draws Cheers and Jeers Since being approved in April, Indiana state officials report that 3,259 students have enrolled in the state's school voucher program... |
| Why Are Finland's Schools Successful? In the 2009 Programme for International Student Assessment scores released last year, Finland came in second in science, third in reading and sixth in math among nearly half a million students worldwide... |
| The Debt Crisis at American Colleges Last year, a typical family with college-age children spent $3,102 on dining out, but only $2,055 on education... |
| Non-Profit Colleges Can Be Very Profitable The average private undergraduate school makes about $5,500 per student; when donations and endowment income are added, profits jump to $12,800 per student... |
| Can American Students Compete Globally? Thirty-two percent of U.S. students in the class of 2011 were proficient in mathematics when they were in 8th grade, compared to a 50 percent or better proficiency rate in Korea, Finland, Switzerland, Japan, Canada and the Netherlands... |
| Scores Show Students Aren't Ready for College Three out of four high school graduates aren't fully prepared for college and likely need to take at least one remedial class... |
| College Dilemma Between 2000 and 2009, for-profit institutions increased enrollment by 300 percent, while public colleges and universities grew by 27 percent... |
| Private School Chains in Chile Reliably scaling up the best schools has proven to be a particularly difficult problem in the United States... |
