En route to Pitchfork music festival in Chicago so blogging via blackberry and limited to short post:
1) David Brooks’ column today about community colleges is quite good, much more so than yesterday’s higher ed piece in the Post from E.J. Dionne.
2) The Post review of the Dead Weather concert @ 930 club misses the point [...]
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Harlem Miracles?
Elizabeth Green asked for my thoughts on a recent study of the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), especially in relation to two counter-claims on its findings: either the HCZ is, as David Brooks posited, a “Harlem Miracle,” or, as argued by Aaron Pallas over at Gotham Schools, Brooks is “gullible” and “dumbstruck,” and it’s just too [...]
I Think Maybe It’s Both
Ten days ago David Brooks wrote a column praising Geoffrey Canada’s Harlem Children’s Zone, citing dramatic achievement gains of its students, and calling it a miracle of the no-excuses model of education. Brooks took the opportunity to praise reformers who believe schools should be the focus of education policy, angering those who think our education [...]
David Brooks on College Aid
Someday, David Brooks will write a tight, well-reasoned column on education policy, and we will praise it here on the Quick and the Ed.
Today is not that day.
In today’s NYTimes piece($), Brooks critiques a recent proposal to increase college financial aid from Hillary Clinton and the DLC, making the familiar Brooksian argument that it’s all [...]
David Brooks on Higher Education: First, Maybe Second Stomach of Cow
David Brooks’ column($) about higher education in today’s NYTimes doesn’t sink to the fourth-stomach-in-cow level of his previous piece on gender and education. But it still misses the mark. For some reason, Brooks thinks higher education systems should be judged on their success in achieving every conceivable goal except…education.
After trying (and mostly failing) to set [...]
David Brooks on Gender=Fourth Stomach in Cow
Yesterday’s David Brooks column on “The Gender Gap at School” ($-sorry) manages to combine three elements that are guaranteed to make me want to bang my head against a wall in frustration: sweeping generalizations about gender; gross oversimplification (and abuse) of brain research; and sweeping, non-empirically correct generalizations about public education. Goody!
To paraphrase Brooks: “Golly, [...]
Meaning from Marshmallows
In yesterday’s NYT, columnist David Brooks argued* that “structural” education reforms–such as accountability, school choice and teacher pay reforms–have a lousy track record of success because they fail to address “core questions, such as how do we get people to master the sort of self-control that leads to success.” According to Brooks,
If you’re a policy [...]
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.