02/12/10 | Each month Scott Andrew Schulz, program director of the Center for Enrollment Research, Policy, and Practice (CERPP) at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, interviews prominent scholars or practitioners on various issues pertaining to higher education. Schulz recently interviewed Kevin Carey about Education Sector’s work and important trends in higher education policy.
Audio Transcript From “A New Era in Higher Education Reform?” Event
The authors of the annual Washington Monthly College Guide and other higher education experts discuss what the Obama administration’s new focus on higher education means for the future of American colleges and universities.
Participants:
Paul Glastris, Editor, Washington Monthly
Kevin Carey, Policy Director, Education Sector
Ben Wildavsky, Senior Fellow, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Paul LeBlanc, President, Southern New Hampshire University
Robert Shireman, Deputy Undersecretary of Education
Jamie Merisotis, CEO of Lumina Foundation, delivered introductory remarks.
Education Sector thanks the Education Policy Student Association of the George Washington University for co-sponsoring this event. Education Sector and Washington Monthly thank Lumina Foundation for its support of this event.
Chad Aldeman Discusses Mandatory School Choice in New York and Boston
Chad Aldeman discusses Boston’s and New York’s mandatory school choice programs with Professors Alvin Roth and Atila Abdulkadiroglu, two of the economists who developed them. The choice matching systems are examined in detail in a new Education Sector report entitled Matchmaking: Enabling Mandatory Public School Choice in New York and Boston.
Erin Dillon on Successful School-Choice Markets
In this podcast, Erin Dillon discusses the findings from her report, Food for Thought, in which she examines successful grocery and banking initiatives in low-income neighborhoods. She also discusses what choice-school operators can learn from banks and grocery stores, and how these lessons can help create functional school-choice markets in underserved neighborhoods.
The research for this report was funded by The Annie E. Casey Foundation. We thank them for their support but acknowledge that the findings and conclusions presented in this report are those of the author alone and do not represent the opinions of the foundation.
Bill Tucker on Technology’s Potential to Transform Academic Testing
In a new Education Sector report, Chief Operating Officer Bill Tucker, argues that technology has the potential to drastically improve our current assessment systems and practices, leading to significant improvements in teaching and learning in the nation’s classrooms.
Author Talk with Jay Mathews
This podcast features an Education Sector–hosted author talk with Jay Mathews, Washington Post columnist and author of the book, Work Hard. Be Nice.
Mathews was joined by Richard Barth, CEO of the KIPP Foundation and Jonah Edelman, executive director of Stand for Children, an advocacy group focusing on public education reform for the discussion. Education Sector’s Andrew Rotherham served as moderator.
Is Technology the Answer to Rising College Costs?
In this podcast, a panel of experts discusses how technology is helping many universities transform undergraduate education by dramatically cutting labor costs and improving student learning results at the same time.
Participants:
Kevin Carey, Research and Policy Manager, Education Sector
Burck Smith, CEO, SMARTHINKING and StraighterLine
Martin Snyder, Director, American Association of University Professors
James Wohlpart, Associate Dean and Professor of English, Florida Gulf Coast University, College of Arts and Sciences
Paul Glastris, Editor, Washington Monthly (Introductions)
Scott Jaschik, Editor, Inside Higher Ed (Moderator)
Education Sector thanks Lumina Foundation for its support of this project.
Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed 
College and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
03/19/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on college graduation rates and the NCAA Tournament in the Detroit Free Press.
03/19/10 | Linda Perlstein links to Education Sector's "College- and Career-Ready" event.
03/17/10 | Ben Miller's column on graduation rates and NCAA Tournament eligibility is mentioned on The Wall Street Journal's The Daily Fix.
03/17/10 | Kevin Carey's critique of Diane Ravitch's latest book is quoted in Doublethink's Conventional Folly blog.
03/15/10 | Ben Miller pens an op-ed for US News & World Report on using graduation rates to determine NCAA Tournament eligibility.