With Selection Sunday coming up, what’s the over-under on the RTT Sweet Sixteen? (Education Week)
How many schools in your state didn’t make AYP? (Center on Education Policy)
And what does “making AYP” mean anyway? (Education Sector)
Wanna save $50K? Just graduate a year early. (Bridge-Span)
Is the voluntary common standards movement doomed to fail again? Or [...]
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NCLB Paranoia
Matt Yglesias has a smart post about how some people are too quick to succumb to paranoid interpretation of NCLB–that the 100 percent proficient target is a conspiracy to destroy public education. As he rightly points out, it’s a strange anti-public education conspiracy that counts Ted Kennedy and George Miller as enthusiastic members, but excludes [...]
Pull Quote, Un-Quote
The Washington Post “Outlook” section this morning includes a major piece on schools “in need of improvement” under NCLB. Taking up two-thirds of the section front page and two full pages inside, the article is entirely devoted to the voices of nine area school principals answering the question: “Why is your school on this list?”
The [...]
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.