How to raise long-term living standards for children. Step one: Elevate academic expectations, writes Peter Cookson Jr. (The Journal News)
Doing “more than ever before.” Almost 70 percent of teachers surveyed say that technology has helped maximize their work in the classroom. This Education Sector piece profiles a blended learning school in California, where technology allows for 48 (engaged) students per classroom and frees teachers to work individually with their neediest students. (PBS)
“The student body, for sale.” A Texas community college student has donated her eggs, tested out birth control, and even had a perfectly good wisdom teeth pulled—all in exchange for cash to pay for school. (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
What group projects are supposed to teach you: Teamwork. What they actually teach you: Trust no one. (h/t Joanne Jacobs, Apt11D)
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