Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| Student Loans: Debt for Life In 2010, student debt exceeded credit card debt for the first time; on average, two-thirds of college graduates ended up with student loan debt of $25,000... |
| The High Cost of College: An Economic Explanation First degree price discrimination occurs when producers learn what each customer is willing and able to pay, thus allowing producers to set individual prices, thereby eliminating competition... |
| College Is No Place for Remedial Education At four-year colleges, about a fifth of all students are in remedial courses... |
| Game Changer Social learning reduces pressures on both families and educators because of the reduced costs and ease of access... |
| College May Never Be the Same Massive Open Online Courses offer the possibility for people around the world to get quality education at little to no cost... |
| A Degree Teachers Can Do Without Removing the requirement for teachers to get a master's degree allows lawmakers to improve the quality of education without changing the current education budget... |
| Putting the Punch in Parent Power Teacher unions, with their strong mobilization and organization have long been able to influence elections -- union-endorsed incumbents have a 92 percent rate of reelection... |
| Could School Choice Erase the Income Gap? In 2011, private schools had a 98 percent graduation rate; in contrast, the 2011 graduation rate for public school children who started high school in 2007 was 75 percent... |
| Public High Schools Are Not Doing Their Jobs According to ACT, only 25 percent of students in the class of 2016 are proficient in English, math, reading and science; more than 25 percent failed to demonstrate proficiency in any subject at all... |
| The Impact of Charter Schools on Public and Private School Enrollments The primary growth in public school enrollment from 2000 to 2008 has been in charter schools, which grew about 17 percent per year since 2000... |
