The Policy Innovators in Education Network (Pie-Net) held their policy summit last week in Denver. If you are not familiar with Pie-Net that is a shame; it is a network of the education advocacy organizations (EAOs) from around the country that are doing the work in the trenches to get policies implemented to really transform [...]
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iStan, High School Football, and Data-Driven Reflection
It looked like a makeshift MASH unit from the outside. But inside it was filled with flat-panel monitors displaying patient vital signs, a real-time video feed, and in the middle of the room, a surgical table. iStan, a life-like, sensor filled mannequin, occupied the middle of the table and waited for a team of medical [...]
Note to High Performing High Schools: Mind the Gap
On the front page of the Washington Post today, there’s an article about racial achievement gaps in SAT scores at local “high performing” high schools. The gist of the article is that high overall SAT scores at some high schools hide the fact that average scores for African American students at these schools are much [...]
Private Colleges
Members of the Annapolis Group, comprised of about 80 liberal arts colleges including Sarah Lawrence, Oberlin, and Reed, announced yesterday they will opt out of the US News college rankings. It is the latest example of a failure to understand what the college accountability movement is all about.
While the US News ranking system [...]
Bee Finished
Andrew Coulson has some more details about Scripps Spelling Bee winner Evan O’Dorney and the public school-connected program through which he receives home-based instruction. I think the whole thing is pretty interesting, as is the growth of home-based charter and, in this case, public schools that appeal to parents who want to educate their children [...]
Snakes, and Snails, and Puppy Dog tails
Who knew this would spark so much sound and fury? Certainly not me.
Of course, not everyone likes my arguments about why we shouldn’t be panicking about a so-called “boy crisis.” This John Leo blog post provides a pretty good example of some of the less positive feedback I’ve been getting. I have [...]
House Budget Makes Value-Added Harder
The House Appropriations committee passed a version of the FY 2007 federal education budget earlier this week (details here). There weren’t a lot of differences from the budget President Bush submitted earlier this year. But one small change is worth noting.
The administration’s proposal to increase funding for state data systems from $24 million to $54 [...]
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.