Community colleges have become the new policy darlings over the last year-plus. Their lower price tag makes them an attractive place to begin a postsecondary education before transferring to a more expensive four-year school, while curricula that are more focused on local vocational needs increases their popularity as a place to get new or updated [...]
All Posts Tagged: 'Crossing the Finish Line'
Inches, Meters, and Miles, Oh My!
Matthew K. Tabor takes to his blog to write an impassioned response to a piece I wrote, backed up by over 250,000 student records on the class of 1999, arguing the SAT and ACT mattered little in college admissions. His evidence? He The New York Daily News found a student who gasp! graduated high school [...]
Crossing the Finish Line: College Dropouts
Crossing the Finish Line, an impressive new book by former Princeton president William Bowen, former Macalaster College president Michael McPherson, and Matthew Chingos, relied on two massive databases on the entering class of 1999–one on 96,000 first-time freshmen and 30,000 entering transfer students at 21 flagship universities and the other on 108,000 freshmen and 42,000 [...]
Crossing the Finish Line: College Admissions
Crossing the Finish Line, a new and impressive book by former Princeton president William Bowen, former Macalaster College president Michael McPherson, and Matthew Chingos, relied on two massive databases on the entering class of 1999–one on 96,000 first-time freshmen and 30,000 entering transfer students at 21 flagship universities and the other on 108,000 freshmen and [...]
Crossing the Finish Line: Transfer Students
Crossing the Finish Line, an impressive book by former Princeton president William Bowen, former Macalaster College president Michael McPherson, and Matthew Chingos, relied on two massive databases on the entering class of 1999–one on 96,000 first-time freshmen and 30,000 entering transfer students at 21 flagship universities and the other on 108,000 freshmen and 42,000 transfers [...]
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 Aldeman's False Fronts is quoted on Accuracy in Academia.
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.
03/08/10 | Andrew Rotherham's Eduwonk post on RTT finalists is quoted on Class Struggle.
03/07/10 | Andrew Rotherham is quoted on the success of MATCH in The Times-Picayune.
03/06/10 | Eduwonk's reaction to Ohio's status as a RTT finalist is cited in a Wall Street Journal editorial.
03/05/10 | Andrew Rotherham's reaction to New York's status as a Race to the Top finalist is cited on National Journal.