Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| Education Savings Accounts Parents in Arizona can use education savings accounts much like health savings accounts to pay for a variety of expenses, such as tutoring, private school tuition and online classes... |
| The Best Teachers in the World Statistical analysis has shown little difference in results from teachers with and without certification... |
| The Impact of Year-Round Schooling on Academic Achievement Research has found that it isn't the amount of time that a student is in school, but rather the amount of learning that takes place... |
| We Need a Brand New K-12 System The education system's addiction to cash and its assumption that nothing can be done differently without additional resources has impaired necessary progress... |
| As Digital Learning Draws New Users, Transformation Will Occur It is vital that online learning develops within a newly imagined regulatory structure that puts students and their intellectual pursuits at the center... |
| How Strong Are U.S. Teacher Unions? A State-By-State Comparison In states with strong teacher unions, there exists the ability to amass people and money and maneuver quickly within wide legal rights... |
| The Bigger Test The five major challenges to K-12 reform can be solved, at least to some degree, with the use of technology... |
| Time for School? For third grade students, simply adding 10 days of learning had an impact greater than repeating a grade, having a better teacher or having a smaller class size... |
| Decades of Employment Growth in America's Public Schools Between 1950 and 2009, the number of employees at schools grew by 386 percent; the number of K-12 public school students increased by just 96 percent... |
| Five Ways the Student Loan Bubble Mirrors the Housing Crisis There are at least $8 billion of private student loans in default, representing more than 850,000 individual loans... |
