Who cares who gets RTT awards? Not Jay Mathews—but he’s willing to be proved wrong. (Class Struggle)
Is it longevity or student outcomes? Cuban asks: What defines great superintendents? (Larry Cuban)
Want to see the human side of “college- and career-ready?” (The Educated Reporter)
Cap enrollments and increase tuition? Or cap tuition and increase enrollments? [...]
All Posts Tagged: 'College- and Career-Ready'
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Title I College- and Career-Ready Standards
Last week President Obama announced plans to require all states to certify that their standards were “college- and career-ready” in order to obtain their portion of $14.5 billion in federal education funds. This is the single largest pot of education money in the federal budget–it’s previously been called Title I of the Elementary and Secondary [...]
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What happens when a school district’s fringe benefit costs rise to 77 percent of an employee’s salary? A school board member talks about why the numbers just don’t add up. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Open up the dreaded college app essay to invite YouTube submissions and what do you get? Tufts is finding [...]
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Will “adequate yearly progress” morph into “college- and career-ready” in the next ESEA reauth? (Politics K-12)
Can graduation rates help future college-goers — especially minority students — make better decisions about where to attend school? Ed Trust says yes. (Education Trust)
Remember the competitive spirit unleashed from being graded on “the curve” back in your schooldays? Well now 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
03/11/10 | 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.