Over on Flypaper, Stafford is blogging about today’s School Finance Redesign Project panel (the report should be here, I gather, but it looks like the site is down). She laments what she sees as inevitable union resistance to the good idea of weighted student funding, which Fordham touts as a panacea for public schools.
I don’t [...]
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Weighted Student Funding
Those tricky charts
The Fordham Foundation’s report comparing high and low achievers under No Child Left Behind had me initially convinced. I wrote an entire blog post claiming that it showed the merits of NCLB, that the law could be credited for closing the achievement gap, and pushing for a future system of accountability that held schools responsible [...]
Weighted Student Funding: A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing?
Last week, the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation released a lengthy new manifesto promoting the idea of “weighted student funding.” Endorsed by an ideologically diverse collection of education policy bigwigs (including my current and former employers), the report essentially combines some very important ideas about correcting resource inequities within school districts with a plan to pave [...]
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.