Way back in July, when three feet of snow probably sounded like a good idea in D.C., Education Sector released Drowning in Debt, a super-sized CYCT documenting rising student debt levels over the past 15 years.
A week later, we added a note to the report stating that the data from different years was not necessarily [...]
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Still Drowning in Debt
Charts You Can’t Trust (continued)
When done well, graphs and charts tell a story or make a point quickly and coherently. Education Sector has a regular feature we call Charts You Can Trust, where we use a new data source to make a point about the state of education policy. You can read them all here. Despite [...]
Charts You Can’t Trust
Education Sector has a monthly feature called Charts You Can Trust, short policy briefs built around a couple of pieces of interesting data. You can read them all here. They’re fun. We’ve always wanted to run a chart you can’t trust, but never got around to it — and now Sherman Dorn has beat us [...]
Buy Now! College On Sale!
I couldn’t resist noting the synchronicity of today’s front-page New York Times article, “In Tuition Game, Popularity Rises with Price” and the Chart You Can Trust we released today. The New York Times piece did a good job of getting at the red flags of tuition discounting—merit aid going to well-off students, the increasing uniformity [...]
Diploma Mills? Or Something Else Altogether?
This month’s installment of Education Sector’s ever-popular “Charts You Can Trust” series describes the startlingly large number of doctorates in education being handed out by a trio of universities–two based in Florida–that provide most of their services to mid-career educators via distance learning and the Internet. (Thanks to This Week In Education for the link).
According [...]
Colleges Giving Even More Financial Aid to Wealthy Students
Way back in the earliest history of Education Sector–I believe it was January 2006–we published our first “Chart You Can Trust.” It described how colleges are increasingly funneling scholarship money away from lower-income students and instead giving it to wealthy applicants who are more useful for boosting both colleges’ standing in the U.S. News college [...]
Are White Students Dragging Down Our International Standing?
Last week the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released the 2006 Condition of Education, a congressionally mandated annual report of trends in American education. This year’s special analysis compared U.S. student performance to our global counterparts on a series of recent international assessments in reading, mathematics, and science. The study shows that while 4th [...]
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.