I’ll second Kevin’s link to Sherman Dorn. Sherman’s post does a nice job splitting the difference between the Education Equality Project and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education. Read it all, but note especially his title, “The Loving Hardass.” I think that’s about right where we should be in accountability for schools: [...]
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Dueling Manifestos
The extremes in school-reform debates always seem to conspire against the middle, making change a lot tougher to achieve.
It happened again last week when two coalitions of pro-public-school educators and policymakers published reform manifestos. We’re not likely to see really significant, sustained improvement in the educational achievement of disadvantaged students unless we embrace the core [...]
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03/11/10 | Kevin Carey is quoted on the rising costs of education in The Economist.
03/10/10 | Chad Aldeman's False Fronts paper is quoted on Accuracy in Academia.
03/09/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on Federal Family Education Loan defaults on The Huffington Post.
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.