Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| Public Policies, Prices and Productivity in American Higher Education The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) reports that in the United States more than $25,000 is spent per student in higher education -- the highest among OECD countries and more than twice the OECD average... |
| Teachers Unions Challenge Virtual Education Though the virtual education industry is attracting significant investment and more schools are offering hybrid or online classes, teachers unions may ultimately slow the growth of technology in education... |
| Cost Containment Should Be a Priority for Higher Education Student loan debt now totals more than $1 trillion... |
| Teacher Training Moves Online More than 30 percent of postsecondary students report taking at least one online class and more than 73 percent of schools offered distance-education courses in 2010... |
| The Case for a Three Year College Degree Reducing the time it takes for a student to complete college could add trillions of dollars in wealth to the U.S. economy... |
| Higher Education Needs Reform The number of college instructors who teach four hours or less per week has doubled since 2000... |
| Student-Based Budgeting Gives Principals More Autonomy Under the new budgeting guidelines, Chicago Public School principals will gain autonomy over 50 percent of school budgets and must submit and receive approval for each school year's budget... |
| Superintendents Paid as Much as Corporate CEOs In Chicago, the public school superintendent makes $250,000 per year while the public school system faces a $665 million budget deficit... |
| A Short History of K-12 Reform By 2010 five in every 10 pupils were enrolled in schools that they or their parents played an active role in selecting rather than passively being assigned by a district bureaucracy... |
| The Great Promise of Online Learning Higher education students taking at least one online class has risen from less than 10 percent in 2002 to more than 30 percent in 2010... |
