Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The Way It Could Be

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Two out of five of America’s teachers are disheartened and disappointed about their jobs, says a new study by Public Agenda and Learning Po...
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Friday, August 07, 2009

Borrower Angst = Business Opportunity

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A new product for loan repayment, SafeStart , officially launched its website today. The product promises to ease students' anxieties ab...

House vs. Senate Higher Ed Earmarks

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Are the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives heading for a fight over higher ed earmarks in their 2010 appropriations bills? The earmark...
Thursday, August 06, 2009

One Way to Recover Endowment Losses

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License your name to a clothing line. Context here . UPDATE: Link fixed (h/t Jacob)
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Will Race to the Top Spur a New Generation of Assessment?

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Perhaps. Significantly improving student assessment is the real "moon shot" for the stimulus funds. A new Education Week article ...
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Willful Misunderstanding

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Over at the National Journal's group edu-bigwig blog, they're debating the question "Are the Race To the Top Requirements Fair?...
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9.5 Scandal Makes its Way to Sallie Mae

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While cost and increased aid for low-income students have rightfully dominated the discussion of the proposal to end subsidies for private l...
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Ironic Twist in the SAT Debate

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A growing number of top liberal arts colleges, dissatisfied with the SAT, the reliance on a standardized test in admission decisions, and th...
Monday, August 03, 2009

Commonplace Corruption

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As the Chicago Tribune reported a couple of days ago, University of Illinois trustee Lawrence Eppley has resigned "against the backdrop...

Taking Your College to Court

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A college should be responsible for the career prospects of its graduates. That's the conceit put forth by Trina Thompson, a 27-year-old...
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Neighbors

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In an illustrative example of how states differ in the way they are reacting to economic shortfalls, here's how Illinois is meeting the...
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Friday, July 31, 2009

Pork Projects in the House

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This week, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee followed on the heels of the House of Representatives by passing its version of a bill t...

Why Teach for America and The New Teacher Project Exist

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If you stop and think about it, Teach for America (TFA) and The New Teacher Project (TNTP) are well-functioning, non-profit, national human ...
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To understand...

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...the satisfaction of seeing My Bloody Valentine live, imagine you're a masochist, standing next to a jet engine, getting beaten about ...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

Charter Schools and Unions—One Size Fits All??

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Unionization of charter schools seems to be the hot topic these days. A recent NYT article raises the critical question: “…whether unions w...
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Not All Higher Education Spending is Created Equal

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At least that’s the conclusion reached in a new working paper from Cornell University’s Higher Education Research Institute. First mentione...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Shoddy Academic Study Denounces Media for Non-Citation of Shoddy Academic Studies

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A couple of days ago, I received an email from the teachers union-funded "Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice" ...
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About CBO's Alternative Student Loan Cost Estimate

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Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Education and Labor voted 30-17 to pass a bill ( PDF ) that increase the Pell Gra...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Golden Parachutes

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The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article recently about pension spiking, a practice where workers use the calculation of their pen...

Tight Budgets and Accountability

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It's funny what a budget shortfall does to perspective. In January of 2007, the University of California (UC) system, one of the largest...

What the Princeton Review Rankings Miss

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Before diving into my first post, I just wanted to say hello. My name is Ben Miller and I just joined Education Sector, where I will be work...
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Monday, July 27, 2009

Charter Schools and Unions

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The New York Times reported yesterday on recent efforts to unionize charter schools and the ongoing debate over the impact unionization co...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

The Bland Accuracy of the GAO

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Today the GAO released an evaluation of District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS). Long known as one of the worst-performing districts in t...
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Just Asking

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To all those who argue mayoral control of schools is bad for democracy, isn't it a good thing that schools are the issue in this year...
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Monday, July 20, 2009

The Libertarian's Dilemma, Cont'd

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Last week I wrote that the problem of runaway college spending presents libertarians with something of a dilemma, because, "the best w...
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Reviewing the Review of What Happened in Montgomery County

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Jay Mathews reviews the new book Leading for Equity, which chronicles Montgomery County’s successes, so far, in closing the achievement gap...
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Friday, July 17, 2009

A Monopoly for Non-Profit Lenders

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SAFRA , the latest acronym in financial aid, refers to the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act - a large and ambitious piece of legisl...
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Charts You Can Trust - Revised

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Earlier this week, the National Center for Education Statistics announced technical changes in the measure of student loan amounts for the 2...

Briefly,

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En route to Pitchfork music festival in Chicago so blogging via blackberry and limited to short post: 1) David Brooks' column today abou...