Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| HARD HIT SCHOOLS TRY PUBLIC RELATIONS PUSH Public schools can't just expect students to show up any more, they have to go out and recruit, says Lisa Relou, who directs marketing efforts for the Denver Public schools... |
| MISSION NOT TO ACCOMPLISH Dedicating more resources to the production of educated workers must come at the expense of resources dedicated to creating other important capital goods, institutions or consumption goods, says Michael Rizzo, lecturer in economics at the University of Rochester... |
| DO YOU KNOW A HIGH-ACHIEVING STUDENT KEPT FROM COLLEGE BECAUSE OF MONEY? Public school systems fail to give many potentially successful high-schoolers the academic skills and working habits they need to succeed in college, says columnist Jay Mathews... |
| AN F IN EFFECTIVENESS When it comes to schools, Obama's stimulus is likely to lock in a set of bad policies, say Eric Hanushek, education economist, and Alfred Lindseth, expert in school finance law... |
| DETROIT SCHOOLS ON THE BRINK: BANKRUPTCY MAY BE REQUIRED TO GAIN CONTROL OF COSTS As with General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC, bankruptcy may not be the worst thing for Detroit's public-school system, say observers... |
| PRIVATE SCHOOLING FOR THE POOR Private schools in some of the poorest regions of the world demonstrate the power of markets to succeed when government has failed, says author James Tooley... |
| CHICAGO SCHOOLS REPORT CONTRADICTS OBAMA AND DUNCAN Chicago's schools have made little progress since 2003, according to report... |
| D.C. COUNCIL WANTS VOUCHERS Why does the national Democratic Party have such fierce opposition to a program that successfully helps poor children to escape failing inner city schools and get the education they deserve?... |
| LAPD HIGH Magnet schools sponsored by cops are getting results with at-risk kids, says Laura Vanderkam, a New York City-based writer... |
| DEREGULATION CAN HELP SOLVE EDUCATION BUDGET CRISIS Legislators could embrace academic freedom by deregulating private schooling and letting the market work, says Nick Dranias of the Goldwater Institute... |
