With RTT applications due today, what’s next? Try $1.3 billion on for size. (WhiteHouse.gov)
A sarcasm mark? Who needs THAT? (Just trying to make it sarcastic here) (Joanne Jacobs)
You’ve heard of the Monroe Doctrine – did last week’s speech outline a new Weingarten Doctrine? (Eduflack)
Is Sec. Duncan right about basketball players needing to stay in college? Or should student athletes be free to make the economic decision that’s right for them? (College Affordability)
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.