United States schoolchildren are not the highest performing in the world, on average. This is well known and constantly cited in various calls-to-arms, from the memorable “hostile foreign power” rhetoric of A Nation at Risk to garden-variety speeches warning of economic threats from brainy children in Beijing and Bangalore. The track record is spotty, to [...]
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Second First
The Education Trust’s latest report on high school graduation rates begins by saying, “The United States is the only industrialized country in the world in which today’s young people are less likely than their parents to have completed high school.” That line became the lede in media reports in USA Today, CNN, the AP, Education [...]
Finn Speaks
Proving once again (as if it were even necessary at this point) that when The Quick and the ED speaks, people listen, Fordham’s Checker Finn dips his toe in the blogosphere for the first time, by calling foul on the “bizzare piggybacking and ahistoricism” of an upcoming Heritage Foundation event titled “25 Years After A [...]
Schools as Scapegoats?
Larry Mishel and Richard Rothstein have written a long piece for The American Prospect titled “Schools as Scapegoats,” which is a good summary of the labor-centered critique of education reform. They make some good points, but I think their larger takes on the political and the policy implications are deeply misguided.
First, the good points. A [...]
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.