This morning, Rep. George Miller, the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor, hosted a breakfast discussion where he spoke at length about certain provisions of the Student Aid and Financial Responsibility Act of 2009 (SAFRA).
An especially interesting theme that came up throughout the discussion was taking a closer look [...]
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Chairman Miller on SAFRA
The Spellings Commission, One Year Later
I went to the signing ceremony for the “College Cost Reduction and Access Act” this morning, at the Old Executive Office Building next to the White House. Flanked by Pell grant recipients, Secretary Spellings, and members of Congress including Rep. George Miller, President Bush offered some fairly pro forma remarks in favor of Pell grants [...]
Poor George
Poor George Miller. The chairman on the House education and labor committee seems to need a new friends and family plan in the wake of his proposed revisions to NCLB. First one of his closest confederates during the drafing of NCLB in 2001, the Education Trust , attacks Miller’s plan as “flawed, flimsy, and phony.” [...]
Rubbing Elbows with the Stars!
This morning I sat in on Business Roundtable’s “Fourth Annual NCLB Forum: Assessing Progress, Addressing Problems, Advancing Performance.” The panel discussion featured Acting Education Department Under Secretary and Chief of Staff David Dunn, House Education and the Workforce Committee Chair and Ranking member, respectively, Howard “Buck” McKeon and George Miller, and NEA President Reg Weaver, [...]
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 Aldeman's False Fronts is quoted on Accuracy in Academia.
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.
03/08/10 | Andrew Rotherham's Eduwonk post on RTT finalists is quoted on Class Struggle.
03/07/10 | Andrew Rotherham is quoted on the success of MATCH in The Times-Picayune.
03/06/10 | Eduwonk's reaction to Ohio's status as a RTT finalist is cited in a Wall Street Journal editorial.
03/05/10 | Andrew Rotherham's reaction to New York's status as a Race to the Top finalist is cited on National Journal.