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High schoolers working for NASA. High School Students United with NASA to Create Hardware or HUNCH brought in 16 high school students to help design and build a disorientation chair for NASA. The Barony Chair helps pilots experience what it is likContinue Reading »
Doodle 4 Google. Check out the 2013 winning student doodle on Google’s homepage. Winner Sabrina Brady of Sparta (Wisconsin) High School will receive a $30,000 college scholarship. (Google)
Financial aid fraud. A woman in Dallas has been chaContinue Reading »
The big news out of the latest Public Education Finances Report is official confirmation that school districts spent less money per student in 2010-11 than they had the year before, the first one-year decline in nearly four decades. It’s worth takContinue Reading »
“By the company it keeps.” Andy Smarick talks to Tim Daly about baseball, his football coaching brother, and The New Teacher Project’s new Leap Year—a study that looks at a teacher’s early progress. (Flypaper)
Spending less on students. PubContinue Reading »
Parent trigger used to find new principal. The Los Angeles school board voted to locate a new principal for Weigand Elementary after parents requested the current principal be fired because of a lack of attendance and communication with parents. Continue Reading »
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released the May 2013 baseline cost estimates for the Pell grant and student loan programs. One of the things that jumped out at me was that for 2013 and 2014, the government estimates that it will make more mContinue Reading »
An unusual organization of policy leaders has joined the chorus for higher education reform. Chief state budget officers rarely speak collectively or publicly about higher education—instead focusing on state revenue issues, adjusting budgets in liContinue Reading »
You owe it to the Chinese. Stephen Colbert gives the 2013 Valedictory Address at the University of Virginia and tells students they don’t owe the previous generation anything and to choose the hard path in life. “While traditional paths may seem hContinue Reading »
What commencement speeches leave out. Now that graduation season has arrived, it is important to note the things that aren’t said in commencement speeches, but should be. Graduates should remember the importance of civic responsibility through actContinue Reading »
Artistic media education. Hip hop mogul Dr. Dre and music industry entrepreneur Jimmy Iovine donated $70 million to USC to create the Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation. The academy, which willContinue Reading »
Chad Aldeman | Teacher Benefits Are Eating Away at Salaries
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 | Tough Love for Colleges and Universities
Andrew Gillen | Higher Ed Data Central: Federal Student Loan “Profits” > Pell Grant Expenses
Sara Mead | How to Avoid Sounding Stupid on the Louisiana Voucher Ruling
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
3/21/2013 | Andrew Gillen tells the New England Center for Investigative Reporting that the rise of administrators in universities is part of the reason for tuition increases.
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.