Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| Obama Spends Billions, Only Adds to College Costs As long as the federal government keeps the money spigot flowing, higher education can evade accountability, says James A. Bacon, author of Boomergeddon... |
| A Closer Look at Higher Education A quick review of the facts reveals that American universities often deliver easy, biased or useless content -- at great expense to students, parents and taxpayers, say observers... |
| Is College Worth the Investment? As the cost of higher education rises, more and more students are struggling over the decision to attend college, says Mark Schneider, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute... |
| Hey, College Dropouts, Stop Costing Taxpayers Millions! Students who drop out of college before their sophomore year cost taxpayers millions, according to a new report from the American Institutes for Research... |
| Three Reasons Obama's Education Vision Fails President Barack Obama is making his bid to be "the education president," yet Obama's education vision deserves an F, says Nick Gillespie, editor in chief of Reason.tv and Reason.com... |
| Education Department's "Gainful Employment" Proposed Regulations Gone Awry The Department of Education's proposed "gainful employment" regulations aimed almost exclusively at for-profit private colleges would most hurt lower income people and minority groups, says Lanny J. Davis, former Special Counsel to President Bill Clinton... |
| Why Is College So Expensive? Soft consumer demand in a weak economy has led many businesses to cut prices, but this is not the case in the market for higher education, say Courtney O'Sullivan, an editor at the National Center for Policy Analysis, and Angelica Gonzalez, a research assistant at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Kansas K-12 Spending and Achievement Comparison Over the last 10 years Kansans have increased per pupil spending by 79 percent, but the results have been dismal, says John R. LaPlante, an education policy fellow with the Kansas Policy Institute... |
| Merit Pay Study: Teacher Bonuses Don't Raise Student Test Scores Offering middle school math teachers bonuses up to $15,000 did not produce gains in student test scores, Vanderbilt University researchers reported Tuesday... |
| Politics and the Scoring of Race to the Top Applications While previous research has dissected the shortcomings of the Race to the Top application process, the extent of the Race to the Top's subjectivity remains unaddressed, says Daniel H. Bowen, a distinguished doctoral fellow of education policy at the University of Arkansas... |
