About that $1 trillion number floating around. Sallie Mae’s CEO says he doesn’t see “anything of any evidence” that points to a student loan bubble. (Bloomberg)
In which fruit speaks. A state test question on an eighth-grade exam involves a talking pineapple that challenges a hare to a race (think: Aesop’s fable) and ends with “The animals ate the pineapple.” The first question after the passage asks why. (New York Daily News)
Do drink the water. New research suggests that drinking water during an exam will boost a student’s performance an average of 5 percent. (BBC News)
“Time to show the state that J don’t play.” Teachers at a Missouri’s Jennings High School tried to psych students up for state tests with this rap video. (h/t Huffington Post) (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Chad Aldeman 
Kristen Amundson 
John E. Chubb 
Constance Clark 
Peter Cookson Jr. 
Thomas Dawson 
Joni Finney 
Andrew Gillen 
Sara Mead 
Sarah Rosenberg 
Jeff Selingo 
Ben Wildavsky 
Mandy Zatynski 
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 
3/21/2013 | Andrew Gillen discusses net tuition and MOOCs with Kevin O’Neill on