Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| Student-Loan Delinquencies Soar Thirty-five percent of people under age 30 who have student loans were at least 90 days late on their payments at the end of last year, up from 26 percent in 2008 and 21 percent at the end of 2004... |
| Private School Choice: Options for Texas Children Surveys have found that 40 percent to 60 percent of suburban, urban and rural students are not engaged with public school content, say John Merrifield, Lewis Warne, Lloyd Bentsen IV, Courtney O'Sullivan and Joe Barnett of the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Why Men Are More Likely to Drop Out of College Men without college degrees face better job prospects than equivalently educated women, at least in the short term... |
| The Rising Cost of Teachers' Health Care For single health insurance coverage, employer costs for private-sector employees are 82 percent of those for teachers... |
| 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... |
