Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| America Spends More on Education, Gets Worse Outcomes America is spending more money on education while producing worse outcomes... |
| Cash Reward Doesn't Improve Student Grades Giving students cash for good grades doesn't work... |
| Do Graduates of Elite Universities Earn More? A student with a 1,400 SAT score who went to Penn State University but applied to the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania earned as much, on average, as a student with a 1,400 who went to the University of Pennsylvania... |
| Make Higher Student Achievement Chief Objective for Teachers Research consistently demonstrates that there are very important differences among teachers... |
| States Cut Back on Prepaid College-Savings Plans Cash-strapped states have abandoned one of the most popular college-savings options: prepaid tuition credits... |
| Education Reform Is Key to Fixing State Budgets The key structural problem in state and local finances is education, not health care... |
| School Choice Makes Financial Sense With states struggling to overcome yawning budget deficits, school choice makes good fiscal sense... |
| Is Higher Education a Public Good? As state legislatures around the country start cutting budgets, they face a puzzler -- what is the proper subsidy (if any) for higher education?... |
| Look to Sweden for School Choice In Sweden, every family has the right to choose a school that’s right for their child, and every student brings with him the same amount of per pupil funding as the cost of the public school in his or her home district... |
| Stop Federal Spending on Education Federal spending on public K-12 education has risen from $31.5 billion in 1970 to $82.9 billion in 2009, yet standardized test scores remain stagnant... |
