Earlier this year I wrote a long magazine story about four African-American drug dealers from West Baltimore–essentially, the real-life guys from The Wire–who, after being arrested and indicted on a raft of federal murder, drugs, weapons, and conspiracy charges, suddenly began using a bizzare constitutional fundamentalist defense that has origins among white supremacist militia crazy people. When the story was published, they hadn’t actually gone to trial yet; I just assumed they would be convicted since their defense amounts to legal gibberish. Yesterday that’s exactly what happened; all four were convicted on most of the charges, three of them for first-degree murder.
Chad Aldeman | Teacher Benefits Are Eating Away at Salaries
Kristen Amundson | Money in Local Races: A Lot of What People ‘Know’ Just Isn’t So
John E. Chubb | The Sandy Hook Tragedy: Guns Kill and So Does Culture
Constance Clark | Academic Effects of Economic Integration: New Evidence from Greenwich, CT
Peter Cookson Jr. | School Culture and Safety
Thomas Dawson | What Kind of Diversity?
Joni Finney | Tough Love for Colleges and Universities
Andrew Gillen | Higher Ed Data Central: Federal Student Loan “Profits” > Pell Grant Expenses
Sara Mead | How to Avoid Sounding Stupid on the Louisiana Voucher Ruling
Jeff Selingo | The Declining Legacy of the Land-Grant Act
Ben Wildavsky | No, India is Not Being Ignored by Mean Western Universities-
Mandy Zatynski | Clarifying College/Career Readiness through Competency-Based Ed
3/21/2013 | Andrew Gillen tells the New England Center for Investigative Reporting that the rise of administrators in universities is part of the reason for tuition increases.
4/5/2013 | Jordan Weissman discusses Andrew Gillen’s Higher Ed Data Central and the increase in college tuition in The Atlantic
3/28/2013 | Chad Aldeman’s Chart You Can Trust “The Evergreen Effect” is discussed in Education Week.