Via Eduwonk by way of DFER, the story of Yolanda Hill, a Rochester mother of five who has been shackled and thrown in prison for enrolling her children in a good school system:
Greece [school district] officials hired a private investigator to look into Hill’s claim that her children lived with their grandmother. According to his [...]
On Tuesday, Matthew Yglesias commented on the report ES released this week on interdistrict school choice (see below for more posts about this). Yglesias questions my use of the word “only” to discuss our finding that 10 to 20 percent of students would likely benefit from interdistrict choice. Instead he argues that for the students [...]
Just to amplify a few points Erin makes below about Education Sector’s new report examining inter-district school choice: One of our main goals in conducting this analysis was to try to get a handle on how the generalized–and very worthwhile–idea of expanding school choice across school district boundaries plays out given real world contraints like [...]
In Dianne’s response below, she talks about two important assumptions we’ve made in ES’s recent report on interdistrict choice–one assumption about driving distance and the other about school capacity. Richard Kahlenberg, an ES Senior Fellow and a well-known advocate of using interdistrict choice as a means to achieve economic integration also takes issue with the [...]
If advocates for children were able to draw school district boundaries anew, nobody in their right mind would configure them with the high levels of inefficiency, inequality and segregation we find today in states like California and Texas (included in the study) and others like New Jersey, Connecticut and Ohio. Education Sector’s report on interdistrict [...]
That’s the title of a Beverly Hills 90210 episode in which Andrea is nearly found out for attending West Beverly High instead of her assigned high school, located in a lower-income part of town. While Andrea gets away with her illegal transfer, many students aren’t able to cross district boundaries to attend a better school. [...]
An article in the BBC reports that the Supreme Court has just narrowly decided that the race of a student cannot be a factor in determining where they are to attend school. Stemming from affirmative action plans in Louisville and Seattle, the case was brought by white parents whose children were denied entry to their [...]
In this new Education Sector report, co-authors Erin Dillon and Robin V. Smiles discuss the growing problem of students defaulting on their student loans. Based on the experiences of a small group of Texas HBCUs and a new statistical analysis of cohort default rates, they argue that institutions play a significant role in helping students avoid default./a>
College and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
In this Education Sector report, Policy Analyst Chad Aldeman calls for a new approach to high school accountability. He argues that the best way to measure whether students are prepared for college or a career is by looking at what actually happens when students arrive at their intended destination.
Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed 
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.
Commendable Commentary
This blog hasn’t had comments for that long, and I’m hoping more people will use them as a chance for substantive dialogue that focuses on the topic of the post in question, as opposed to anonymous shot-taking and/or general complaint. In that spirit, let me heartily commend the second comment in this post, in which [...]