Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| Gainful Employment Rules Shortsighted Rewriting federal student aid rules to discriminate against career college students will unfairly disadvantage low-income and minority communities without providing taxpayers any significant savings... |
| Reforming Higher Education The cost of obtaining a four-year degree has more than doubled since 1975 in inflation-adjusted dollars... |
| Does Merit Pay Work? School-wide bonus programs may be able to provide strong incentives in schools with relatively small teaching staffs... |
| Students Perform Better With Teachers Who Are Paid for Performance Students in countries with performance-based teacher pay perform at higher levels in math, science and reading... |
| Effect of Texas' Top 10 Percent Guaranteed Admission Plan The net effect of students strategically choosing their high school in order to improve their chances of being in the top 10 percent is to slightly decrease minority students' representation in the pool... |
| Putting American Student Performance in Perspective In raw numbers, the United States produces many more high-achieving students than any other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development nation... |
| Effects of Federal Intervention in Education A half-century of continually expanding, ever-shifting federal intervention into local schools has failed to improve American academic achievement... |
| Remaking America's Public Universities Public higher education's rapid growth came to a halt two years ago, thanks to shrunken state revenues caused by the recession... |
| The High Cost of Intercollegiate Athletics Intercollegiate athletics threaten to crowd out other higher education activities, including the core mission of teaching and research... |
| Are College Students Learning? In their first two years of college, 45 percent of students made no significant improvement in skills related to critical thinking, complex reasoning and communication... |
