The New York Times reports on the painful cost-cutting measures that Harvard has undertaken in these terrible times:
Gone are the hot breakfasts in most dorms and the pastries at Widener Library. Varsity athletes are no longer guaranteed free sweat suits, and just this week came the jarring news that professors will go without cookies at [...]
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Filling Budget Holes
If you want to get a sense of how bad state and local budgets are, there’s not a better resource out there right now than this article on Stateline.org. Among the things you’ll learn:
This is truly the worst recession in 50 years. State and local tax collections fell at rates unseen in the modern era. [...]
Updated: Fewer Students, More Teachers
A couple weeks ago the Census released a report compiling expenditure data for states and localities, but its value was buried in a handful of stories with the headline, “Census: Feds Contributed Little to Schools in 2007,” the premise being that the federal government contributes, on average, 8.3 percent of all K–12 dollars. The articles [...]
The School Poverty Gambit
In National Review Online, Mike Petrilli, Checker Finn, and Rick Hess argue that any kind of stimulus-driven state revenue sharing program that prevented painful budget cuts to the public schools would be bad for students, because what the public schools really need right now are painful budget cuts:
There’s scant evidence that an extra dollar invested in [...]
Investing in the Downturn
Budget cuts and fights to preserve funding will dominate the headlines for at least the next year. But, sometimes, even in a downturn, it’s important to invest new funds in particularly promising areas. It’s why even in the face of massive financial uncertainty, GM is doing what it can to continue investments in ideas such [...]
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.