Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| How to Get Good Grades Throwing money at education does not seem to do much good, at least in those countries that already send all their young people to school, according to a new report from McKinsey... |
| California's Parent Revolution In Compton, California, more than 260 parents will pull the first "parent trigger" in a bid to transform a failing public school, reports the Wall Street Journal... |
| Feds Should Flunk Out of Education There's been essentially no change in high school math achievement for nearly the last four decades, says Neal McCluskey... |
| The GOP's Education Dilemma The federal government has ballooned into the all-powerful education behemoth that the GOP long feared, says Diane Ravitch... |
| New Harvard Report on Arizona's Tuition Tax Credit Debunks Myths Those who oppose parental choice often claim that Arizona's tuition tax credit only benefits children from wealthy families, but the median family income for students with tax credit scholarships was almost $5,000 lower than the statewide median family income, according to a new report from Harvard University's Program on Education Policy and Governance... |
| Quality Guarantee or a Waste of Money? The federal government should stop relying on accreditation as the determinant of eligibility for federal student aid funds, says a new report... |
| School Choice in Canada: Lessons for America Alberta, Canada's large variety of educational choice has led to its students placing second in the world in science on international tests, says Mark Milke, director of Alberta policy studies at the Fraser Institute... |
| The Radical School Reform You've Never Heard Of Under California's "parent trigger," if 51 percent of parents in a failing school sign a petition, they can trigger a forcible transformation of the school, says David Feith, an assistant editorial features editor at the Wall Street Journal... |
| Stanford Study: American Math Achievement Trails Most Industrialized Nations American students rank 31st in the world in an international comparison of advanced math skills, according to a new study... |
| Put Department of Education in Timeout The U.S. Department of Education's budget has grown to a whopping $107 billion, but test scores for 17-year-old American students have remained essentially flat since 1970, says Richard W. Rahn, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute... |
