Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| Education Savings Accounts Education savings accounts would allow parents to use the money for a wide range of educational services, including private school tuition... |
| Teacher Evaluations Lack Meaning In a system where all teachers are winners, a crucial gauge of teacher quality is essentially lost... |
| Charter Schools Outperform Traditional Public Schools Well-run charter public schools perform significantly better than traditional public schools... |
| Ivy Chase The average annual return on investment for the top 10 public institutions is 13.4 percent, compared to 12.3 percent for the top 10 private institutions... |
| Grading the Ivory Towers Professors' salaries and benefits make up about 60 percent to 70 percent of university noncapital costs... |
| Accountability Is Working in Florida's Schools Thirty-three percent of fourth-graders in America are functionally illiterate, according to the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress... |
| More Students Taking "Gap Year" Before College More students are delaying attending college for a year after high school, citing the competitive pressure of high school and the desire to find out more about themselves, according to survey... |
| Only 1 Percent of "Bad" Schools Turn Around Only about 1 percent of 2,000 of the worst performing district and charter schools truly "turned around," according to a new report... |
| From Wall Street to Wal-Mart: Why College Graduates Are Not Getting Good Jobs More than one-third of current working graduates are in jobs that do not require a degree, and the proportion appears to be rising rapidly, according to a new report... |
| The Great College Degree Scam Approximately 60 percent of the increase in the number of college graduates from 1992 to 2008 worked in jobs that the Bureau of Labor Statistics considers relatively low skilled, according to Richard Vedder... |
