The recently-passed stimulus bill provides money for comparative analysis of medical treatments for various ailments. It’s the first such authorization, and it will allow us to answer whether ailment X is best treated with pills, therapy, or surgery. These types of comparisons have long been absent in discussions of educational pedagogy, but yesterday’s IES/ Mathematica [...]
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Blessed are the Tastemakers
I went shopping for indie rock CDs in Canada, and figured out what’s wrong with higher education in America.
Specifically, I was in a CD store on Rue St. Denis in Montreal, where my lovely wife and I were on vacation over the holiday weekend. Since the Canadian good bands per capita ratio is, for reasons [...]
That Doesn’t Sound Like Curricular Narrowing to Me
So, this weekend was the last one for the production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in which I appeared (I’m the one in pink). Lots of terrific things about the experience, not related to education, that I won’t go into here. One very interesting and educationally-relevant thing I learned about, though, was some of the [...]
Shameless Self-Promotion
Nope, I’m not complaining about CNN’s latest sensationalist “teacher-does-stupid-things” headline. I’m just putting in an utterly shameless plug for folks to come see me perform in a community theatre production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream this weekend (more info and tickets here).
It’s a family-friendly production, so if you have children (or just know some) [...]
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.