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Sector Spotlight
Report Release: Reforming Teacher Pensions for a Changing Work Force
New Education Sector report examines teacher pensions and details the problems facing current state pension programs.
Sport or Not? A Question for the Courts
Senior Policy Analyst Elena Silva interviewed by the New York Times on Title IX.
Teachers Unions as Agents of Reform
Brad Jupp, an architect of Denver's landmark performance-based teacher pay system, ProComp, is an outspoken advocate of both labor organizing and quality education for disadvantaged kids. In this interview, Jupp talks about ProComp, his views on teacher unionism, and the future of the teaching profession.
Education Sector Welcomes Three New Board Members
Education Sector's board of directors names three prominent leaders in the fields of education and journalism to the board: David W. Breneman, Richard Lee Colvin, and Peter McWalters.
For-profit colleges: Do they shortchange students?
Policy Director Kevin Carey comments on a recent Senate HELP Committee hearing on for-profit colleges.
Related Materials
Idaho Score Card
Idaho, the 39th most populous state, has moderate educational attainment levels except in two categories: It has one of the lowest rates of graduate degree attainment, but ranks in the top five in percentage of its population with an associate degree. Idaho has low per capita income, but also has a low poverty rate. Like other Mountain West states, Idaho is expected to have an 11 percent increase in high school graduates from 2007–08 to 2017–18. Only 43.9 percent of Idaho's freshmen enrolling at four-year institutions graduate in six years or less, compared to the national mark of 55.9 percent.
Idaho's higher education accountability system's strengths are:
- Aligning state priorities with concrete goals for achievement.
Idaho's higher education accountability system needs work in:
- Gathering information on a wide breadth of performance measures.
- Collecting and reporting data in a timely fashion.
- Formally linking budgetary decisions to the performance of state postsecondary institutions.
- Proactively informing prospective students, parents, and the general public about the performance of state colleges and universities.
