Someone needs to tell U.S. News & World Report‘s Robert Morse that data he says he wants to include in his magazine’s high school rankings are already available. In a short interview with the Education Writers Association’s Emily Richmond, Morse said:

The rankings don’t tell us how students do once they leave a high-scoring high school – for exContinue Reading »

Thirty years of just saying no. Drug Abuse Resistance Education turns 30 today. D.A.R.E was created in Los Angeles to teach students about the dangers of drug use. (Huffington Post)

MOOCs: Meet LOOCs. The Sloan Consortium event last week included “little” open online courses, or LOOCs, from the American College of Education. (EdSurge)

Sixteenth century comes to 21st century schoolContinue Reading »

You can’t get federal student aid unless you fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Research suggests that helping students complete a FAFSA can increase the number of students who receive financial aid, the amount of aid they receive–even the proportion of students who enroll in college. The American Council on Education estimates that nearly one in five low-income studContinue Reading »

Accountability in school leadership. A new report encourages school principal reform by linking performance data to preparation programs and tracking trends that will better target professional development. (Center on Reinventing Public Education)

You decide who’s right. A tough review of last month’s widely cited Brookings Institution report on the effect of school vouchers on college eContinue Reading »

Confession: I’m a sucker for a good infographic. And today, the Strategic Data Project at Harvard (part of the Center for Education Policy Research) released three(!). As Caralee Adams reported in College Bound, the project has developed a set of performance indicators for school districts and high schools – indicators that provide insight into how well they do in preparing and sending their grContinue Reading »

From the New York Times, in an article titled “Ivy League Crunch Brings New Cachet to Next Tier,” about the idea that ever-more-selective elite universities are driving students to apply to less-elite universities, which are as a result becoming more elite:

The logjam is the result of supply and demand. The number of students graduating from high school has been increasing, aContinue Reading »