Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| TEACHERS UNION PUSHES FOR LARGER CLASS SIZES TAUGHT BY BAD TEACHERS Some teachers are great at adding value, and some are abysmal, dragging down their students' learning, according to a study from the Brookings Institution... |
| LAST CHANCE FOR SCHOOL REFORM Washington, D.C.'s schools are the worst in the nation, but they may also be ripe for big changes, say observers... |
| WHY FREER SCHOOLS ARE BETTER SCHOOLS The charter school movement is succeeding because it liberates teachers and principals from rules and regulations and holds them accountable for results, says Philip K. Howard, chair of legal reform organization Common Good... |
| EDUCATION VOUCHERS BENEFIT EDGEWOOD STUDENTS Universal school choice programs can have a strong economic effect on a community. Moreover, students benefit from having a choice in the school they attend -- even if they remain in the public schools, says John D. Merrifield... |
| CHARTER SCHOOLS AND STUDENT PERFORMANCE If charter schools continue to expand, the competition between them and district schools could prove to be transformative, says Paul E. Peterson, a professor of government at Harvard University and a senior fellow with the Hoover Institution... |
| CHARTER SCHOOLS LOSE IN L.A. The City of Angels lets teachers' unions keep control of its worst campuses, says Marcus A. Winters, a senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute... |
| THE RACE BETWEEN EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY For much of the 20th century, skill-biased technological change was outpaced by advances in educational attainment, say authors Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz... |
| HOW TESTS CAN IDENTIFY THE INEPT No teacher should be immune from the consequences of poor performance, no matter how long he has been in the classroom, says Marcus Winters, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute... |
| WAYS TO MAKE HIGHER EDUCATION MORE AFFORDABLE As many as 1 million children around the nation are participating in some form of online learning, say the Heritage Foundation's Dan Lips, a Senior Policy Analyst in Education in the Domestic Policy Studies Department... |
| BASIC SUMS BAFFLE PRIMARY TEACHERS A generation of British teachers do not fully understand math, according to Richard Dunne, a math education specialist who created a test of simple math skills taken by teachers from across the country... |
