The world is complicated place — a lot of grey areas, a lot of ins, outs, and what-have-yous. It’s hard to be sure. Yet I’m going to go out on a limb and say that it’s unambiguously a good thing that it’s apparently getting harder for rich Manhattanites to push their children into Harvard by spending vast sums of money on expensive private schools, $46,000 private Ivy League admissions consultants (that’s not a typo), etc. etc. The reason (anecdotal, to be sure): all the criticism of the Ivies’ plutocracy-sustaining admissions policies and near-total lack of economic diversity seems to be paying off, at least a little. I’ve said previously that all the hoopla surrounding Harvard’s more generous aid policies is only justified if it results in more equity as defined by the real coin of the realm in elite higher education: admissions. If this is legit, great–hopefully in the future we’ll be reading more stories about people with too much money losing their minds because it turns out there are still a few things that money can’t buy.
Kevin Carey appeared on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" to talk about the education proposals put forth during Wednesday’s State of the Union speech, including endowments, student loans, college prices and No Child Left Behind. He also responded to telephone calls and electronic communications.
Andrew Rotherham is featured in CBS's "Where America Stands," a news special on the current state of the nation's schools.
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01/28/10 | Education Sector is referenced and linked to in an article on AnnArbor.com.
01/28/10 | Andrew Rotherham is mentioned in a National Review Online column.
01/26/10 | Andrew Rotherham is quoted in an Education Week news article on President Obama's proposed education spending.
01/25/10 | Chad Aldeman's "College- and Career-Ready" is summarized in the Alliance for Excellence in Education's Straight A's newsletter.
01/21/10 | Chad Aldeman's "College- and Career-Ready" is reviewed by College Summit's blog.
01/22/10 | Ben Miller's Q&E post on student debt is linked to on the California Watch blog.