Higher education in the presidential election. President Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney share their ideas for higher education reform. (TIME)
“You’ve never seen a tax dollar work harder.” National Teacher of the Year Rebecca Mieliwocki, during a Q&A, talks about returning esteem to the teacher profession by, in part, creating career ladders (with salary bumps) for educators. (Education Week)
A two-year degree in half the time. An Arizona community college is combining “an aggressive load” of face-to-face and online courses to create an associate degree attainable in one year. (Community College Times)
Dress-up at its finest. This third-grader dresses up every day as an important (usually female) figure in history. (h/t This Week in Education) (Omaha World-Herald)
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