Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| 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... |
| 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... |
