Quick Hits is a short compilation of question-raising news stories, blog posts, and video clips that Education Sector team members are reading or viewing each day.
- “Few policymakers, parents, practitioners, for example, ever ask: What are the assumptions behind this reform?” (Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice)
- Petrilli asks: Are school reformers turning into compliance police? (Flypaper)
- Although they’re under close scrutiny from political leaders in Washington, what successful practices can for-profit colleges share with their non-profit counterparts? (Inside Higher Ed)
- Matt Yglesias has some ideas about what types of federal programs Congressional Republicans should seek to cut. Would you have guessed that one of them relates to Domino’s? (Yglesias)
- How can colleges begin credentialing students’ independent learning? (Community College Spotlight)
Chad Aldeman 
Kristen Amundson 
John E. Chubb 
Constance Clark 
Peter Cookson Jr. 
Thomas Dawson 
Joni Finney 
Andrew Gillen 
Sara Mead 
Jeff Selingo 
Ben Wildavsky 
Mandy Zatynski 
3/21/2013 | Andrew Gillen tells the 
4/5/2013 | Jordan Weissman discusses Andrew Gillen’s Higher Ed Data Central and the increase in college tuition in 
3/28/2013 | Chad Aldeman’s Chart You Can Trust “The Evergreen Effect” is discussed in