Start reading! The Senate HELP committee will likely look into states’ (lengthy) NCLB waivers, an aide says. (PoliticsK12/Education Week)
The worst learning strategy? Highlighting and underlining passages. (TIME)
“We hope you’re not exceptional.” Two, $5,000 scholarships are up for grabs, but to get one, applicants can’t be stellar; they must be average. (College Humor)
“We incubated this for however long lunch was.” And other #overlyhonestmethods from scientists. (ASBMD Today)
Chad Aldeman | Timing the Common Core
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 | Outcomes Worth Measuring
Andrew Gillen | Higher Ed Data Central: Death to the Perkins Loan
Sara Mead | How to Avoid Sounding Stupid on the Louisiana Voucher Ruling
Sarah Rosenberg | Rumble in the Rose Garden
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
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.
3/21/2013 | Andrew Gillen discusses net tuition and MOOCs with Kevin O’Neill on Capital Thinking.