Crossing the Finish Line, the new book from former Princeton president William Bowen, former Macalaster College president Michael McPherson, and Matthew Chingos, is getting a lot of coverage today. (The Chronicle here, InsideHigherEd here, the Times here). I haven’t read it yet (no review copy, ahem), but it looks very interesting. The authors tracked 94,000 students [...]
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Fear for Your Daughter’s Virtue
“Boys crisis” promoter Richard Whitmire has a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Ed offering a new reason to be upset about the higher education gender imbalance: it’s turning college girls into, um, women of easy virtue, allegedly because of “what biologists refer to as the operational sex ratio, which in the animal kingdom refers [...]
Grad Rate Round-up
There’s been a lot of good commentary and coverage of the new Education Sector minority college graduation rates report over the last few days:
The comments thread for the InsideHigherEd piece goes okay for a while, although anonymous Internet commenters and critics continue to bug me. If you’re going to go posting some crazy nonsense, at [...]
College Graduation Rates and Affirmative Action
The National Review faults my new report on minority college graduation rates because “the words “affirmative” and “preference” appear nowhere in the document.” Well, yes, that’s true. And I have to admit, in the course of my analysis, I observed one group of students that consistently struggles in graduating compared to their peers. At college [...]
How Colleges Short-Change Women
In the Chronicle of Higher Education, USA Today editorial writer Richard Whitmire, author of a forthcoming book about how K-12 schools supposedly short-change boys, looks at the issue of gender discrimination in college admissions. Says($) Whitmire:
In desperate attempts to keep their campuses from swinging hugely female, as far more women than men apply to college [...]
Too Many Asians at Berkeley?
In today’s NYTimes Education Life supplement, Timothy Egan writes an unsatisfying story about an interesting issue: the growing number of Asian students at elite universities.
Egan pegs his story to UC-Berkeley, where the percentage of Asian students has grown to 41% in the wake of a statewide ballot initiative prohibiting the consideration of race in public [...]
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
03/11/10 | Kevin Carey is quoted on the rising costs of education in The Economist.
03/10/10 | Chad Aldeman Aldeman's False Fronts is quoted on Accuracy in Academia.
03/09/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on loan origination on the Firedog Lake blog.
03/07/10 | Kevin Carey calls for a Race to the Top in higher education in a column in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
03/08/10 | Andrew Rotherham's Eduwonk post on RTT finalists is quoted on Class Struggle.
03/07/10 | Andrew Rotherham is quoted on the success of MATCH in The Times-Picayune.
03/06/10 | Eduwonk's reaction to Ohio's status as a RTT finalist is cited in a Wall Street Journal editorial.
03/05/10 | Andrew Rotherham's reaction to New York's status as a Race to the Top finalist is cited on National Journal.