A Roadmap For Education Reform: Time For the Adults to do Our Homework
Those who have followed my project know
Those who have followed my project know
This paper is one of three in a series on higher education costs. The series also includes “Addressing the declining productivity of higher education using cost-effectiveness analysis” and “Public policies, prices, and productivity in American higher education.”
How to contain the cost of colleges and universities is attracting much attention in higher education policy circles. The reasons for the attention are not hard to fathom. Students and parents labor under ever-rising tuition rates. Schools feel they must spend more in real terms to build or protect their brand, by boosting faculty research and scholarship, enhancing the student experience, and so on. And to round out the perfect storm, most states are curbing higher education appropriations because of rising budget pressures.
Much has been made over school choice, and as the data comes in, we can make an informed decision that is in the best interest of our children’s future. Proponents of the government monopoly on education have cited:
