As you’ve already noticed, we gave the Quick and the Ed a facelift this past weekend. With better tools for tagging, sharing, and commenting, along with a cleaner look, we hope that you agree that it’s a much-needed re-fresh. We’re continuing to tweak out any bugs, so let us know what you think in the [...]
All Posts Tagged: 'Education Sector'
Departure Lounge
Five years after sketching the contours of Education Sector with Andy Rotherham at the Oceanaire restaurant in downtown Washington, I’m leaving the organization at the end of June to become executive director of the Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington (AISGW), a vibrant consortium of 84 private and independent parochial schools, where I’ll have [...]
Competition on Quality, Service, and Price
A couple of weeks ago I was at a meeting where a higher education spokesperson flat-out stated there was no market demand for student learning data. His group had done focus groups, he said, and it just wasn’t as high on their list as other things. His point would be fair, even if true, if [...]
How We Deal
Eduwonkette’s recent post on linkages between leading education think tanks poses a couple of important questions: Do the leading education policy shops amount to “multiple organizational outposts” for a small and insular group of thought leaders? And can think tanks claim to be independent evaluators when they share board members and funders?
Since Eduwonkette included Education [...]
Paying and Evaluating Teachers
The Denver Post reports on Obama as the next great supporter of ProComp, Denver’s highly praised pay-for-performance, or merit pay, program. This issue of teacher pay has become one of the big education debates among Democrats in the 2008 presidential campaign (both Clinton and Edwards are against merit pay but support differential pay–extra for teachers [...]
Clearly, Our Work Here is Done
When we started Education Sector two years ago, we had big dreams–a new kind of organization, combining the best that think tanks and high-quality journalism have to offer, a place that would have a deep and lasting impact on the American educational experience.
And now that our work has been cited on the Colbert Report (click [...]
Communications Mastermind Needed
My brief excursion to AERA went well (Standing room only in my session! Okay, it was a small room…), but is ending on a bad note as I am currently stranded in Hell on Earth the American Airlines terminal at O’Hare, waiting for a flight that may or may not be leaving for National Airport [...]
New Quick-and-Edster
Note: the post below is the first on the Quick and the Ed from Erin Dillon, a newly-arrived policy analyst at Education Sector. Erin comes to the organization from New York, NY, where she worked as a research associate at the Beginning with Children Foundation, helping with a college preparatory program for high school [...]
Welcome!
Welcome to the Quick and the ED, a new blog from Education Sector. Over the coming weeks and months, you can expect to see this space filled with what we hope is smart, provocative, and witty commentary about a wide range of issues in American education, from preschool through graduate school, and including both today’s [...]
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.