Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| Disclosing Recent Grad Wages May Help Prospective Students With a large number of recent graduates unemployed, providing more information may be a way to ensure that students know what return on investment they can expect from their college education... |
| New School Model Receives High Marks Instead of focusing on the amount of seat time a student amasses, credit should be awarded for mastering subject matter... |
| Behavioral Differences Explain the Gender Learning Gap Regardless of racial group or subject area, boys make lower grades than their test scores predict because of their classroom behavior... |
| School Choice Pays Off -- Literally The District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program produced $2.62 in benefits for every dollar it spent... |
| America's Education Still at Risk Fostering competition in the market for schooling incentivizes underperforming institutions to shape up... |
| Solving America's Math Crisis From 1983 to 2007, the percent of college graduates with math-intensive majors fell from roughly 25 percent to around 15 percent... |
| College Need Not Be Expensive Inflation-adjusted household income has fallen by 7 percent between 2006 and 2011, while the average real tuition at public four-year colleges has risen over 18 percent... |
| Labor Force Mismatch Leads to College Grad Underemployment Roughly 48 percent of employed college graduates are in jobs that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says require less than a four-year college education... |
| How to Raise the Quality of Teachers Principals should focus on retaining top-quartile teachers, replacing bottom-quartile teachers and hiring new teachers with potential... |
| Nation's Best School Districts Trail Global Competition Only 9 percent of U.S. school districts have their average student place in the top 33rd percentile on international standardized tests... |
