Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| Value of College Degree Is Growing, Study Says Despite rising tuition and student loan debt levels, the long-term payoff from earning a college degree is growing, according to a report by the College Board... |
| A Health Care Plan for Colleges Most parents probably don't realize how increasing health care costs are harming their kids' education, says Peter Orszag, former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget... |
| Cheating Charter Schools The new $10 billion federal teacher bailout will be dispensed in a way that discriminates against charter schools, say observers... |
| A&M System Grades Faculty -- By Bottom Line Frank Ashley, vice chancellor for academic affairs for the Texas A&M university system, has been put in charge of creating a measure that he says will help better understand which faculty members are pulling their weight, says Vimal Patel... |
| U.S. Asks Educators to Reinvent Student Tests, and How They Are Given The Department of Education will spend $330 million to design new standardized tests for K-12 schools, says Sam Dillon... |
| Los Angeles Unveils The Costliest School In The Nation The new Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools in Los Angeles carries an astonishing price tag of $578 million, making it the nation's most expensive public school ever, say observers... |
| Given Money, Schools Wait On Rehiring Teachers Despite promises that federal stimulus money would save jobs, school districts are not using the latest $10 billion federal bailout to hire teachers, say observers... |
| Scores Stagnate At High Schools Fewer than 25 percent of 2010 graduates who took the ACT college entrance exam possessed the academic skills necessary to pass entry-level courses, according to data... |
| What About the Margin? Among those making $20,000 or less annually, 6 percent have master's degrees or higher, 14 percent have bachelor's degrees and 9 percent have associate's degrees, says George Leef, director of research for the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy... |
| THE CASE FOR SATURDAY SCHOOL School children in China attend school 41 days a year more than most young Americans and receive 30 percent more hours of instruction, says Chester E. Finn Jr., a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and Chairman of the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education... |
