Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| Are Philanthropists Backing the Best Charter Schools? There is effectively no correlation between grant funding and charter network performance... |
| Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness Effectiveness measures based on classroom practice provide critical information to teachers and administrators on what actions they can take to raise student achievement... |
| Faculty Productivity and Costs at the University of Texas at Austin Twenty percent of University of Texas at Austin faculty members teach 57 percent of student credit hours... |
| Charging for Public Schools Public schools are beginning to impose fees for everything from enrolling in honors English to riding the bus... |
| The Economic Value of College Majors The difference in earnings potential between one college major and another can be more than 300 percent... |
| Rethinking Teaching Virtual-learning options like Tutor.com can offer families online tutoring in a variety of subjects, 24 hours a day, from expert tutors around the world... |
| How Much Do Public Schools Spend on Teaching? Philadelphia schools reported that instruction was 54 percent of its expenditures, but including capital costs and other expenses, only 31 percent of its spending was instructional, says Michael Barba, a graduate student fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Is a Bachelor's Degree Worth It? The Census Bureau's 2009 Current Population Survey shows that 20 percent of individuals making less than $20,000 per year have bachelor's or master's degrees... |
| What If Supermarkets Were Like Public Schools? Groceries and many other staples of daily life are distributed effectively by competitive markets responding to consumer choice -- the same could be true of education... |
| Understanding the Role of For-Profits in Education There are far fewer inherent and predetermined differences between for-profit companies and their nonprofit counterparts than many assume... |
