If you Tweet from space, does that make it a “Twitterverse?” (NASA)
How will you celebrate National Handwriting Day? By sending a text message? (WIMA)
Are pay increases for university presidents out of whack? Or simply out of touch? (Chronicle of Higher Education)
What does Frederick Hess have to say about the WSJ’s RTT editorial? [...]
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Quick Hits
Stimulating Stimulus Discussion
The Department of Education is in the process or has distributed the first $44 billion of K-12 stimulus funding. Most of this funding will flow to school districts based on established formulas. Clearly this funding provides a great opportunity for local education leaders to do the right thing with the funds and make investments that [...]
Starving the Schools Into Submission, Cont’d
Mike Petrilli responds to the post below and comments from Eduwonk about the Petrilli/Finn/Hess strategy to catalyze a new era of education reform through the financial immiseration of the K-12 school system by concluding:
…if you want taxpayers to provide extra resources, let’s see some serious reforms. And that means not accepting the status quo as [...]
The School Poverty Gambit
In National Review Online, Mike Petrilli, Checker Finn, and Rick Hess argue that any kind of stimulus-driven state revenue sharing program that prevented painful budget cuts to the public schools would be bad for students, because what the public schools really need right now are painful budget cuts:
There’s scant evidence that an extra dollar invested in [...]
Towards 2014: Education Research on the Leading Edge of School Improvement?
This Education Sector podcast showcases a timely policy forum about the connection between scientific research and school improvement—past, present, and future.
Participants:
Denise Borders, Academy for Educational Development
Gina Burkhardt, Learning Point Associates
Chester E. Finn, Jr., Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
Steve Fleischman, American Institutes for Research
Frederick Hess, American Enterprise Institute
Jim Kohlmoos, Knowledge Alliance
Andrew J. Rotherham, Education Sector
Marshall (Mike) Smith, William and [...]
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.