Who cares who gets RTT awards? Not Jay Mathews—but he’s willing to be proved wrong. (Class Struggle)
Is it longevity or student outcomes? Cuban asks: What defines great superintendents? (Larry Cuban)
Want to see the human side of “college- and career-ready?” (The Educated Reporter)
Cap enrollments and increase tuition? Or cap tuition and increase enrollments? [...]
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What happens when a mayor’s plan to tax college tuition payments hits the public eye? Pretty much what you’d expect. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
What if students who signed up for college math could, you know, do college math? (The Diamondback)
Andy wanted a whole new name – but Jay ups the ante: What one word would you most [...]
Reviewing the Review of What Happened in Montgomery County
Jay Mathews reviews the new book Leading for Equity, which chronicles Montgomery County’s successes, so far, in closing the achievement gap. Straight out of the gate, Mathew’s is right about one thing —the six “lessons” are convoluted and sound more like titles for paper submissions to AERA than book chapters (Lesson 1, for example: Implementing [...]
Kahlenberg on KIPP
Rich Kahlenberg published a review of Jay Matthews’ new KIPP book (Work Hard. Be Nice.) in the Washington Post Book World back of the Washington Post Outlook section yesterday. Rich spends the first half of the review giving Jay good marks before devoting the second half to warning readers that:
…there are also two misguided “lessons” [...]
Why KIPP Matters
I first heard the word “kip” in seventh-grade gymnastics class. It was a special move where, lying on your back, you pulled your legs to your chest and then quickly pushed them forward. The momentum would propel you up and into a standing position. This was all theoretical of course, at least for me; I [...]
"Work Hard. Be Nice."
Famously, that’s the slogan of the much-discussed KIPP network of charter schools that have had great success in helping low-income and minority students learn. Now it’s also the title of veteran Washington Post education reporter Jay Matthews’ new book chronicling how the organization came to be what it is today. Education Sector is sponsoring an event [...]
School Names, Again
More on school names from Jay Mathews at the Washington Post, this time focusing on North Virginia. Evidently, presidents and well-known people “tend to be controversial, whereas few Americans have bad things to say about rivers, lakes, forests or freedom.” And don’t forget sea creatures!
Mathews thinks it would be better to name schools after people. [...]
Too Soon to Call Victory for Charters
Jay Mathews has a great post over on edspresso about why he thinks charters are a more promising long-term strategy than vouchers to expand meaningful, quality school choice for low-income children and parents. The basic point is that, while vouchers can help some kids move into better public schools, what we really need is to [...]
Panic! Some More
Since the college admission panic story has already been beaten to death by Reuter’s, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times, the Washington Post obviously had no choice but to go above the fold with exactly the same story today. This is what happens when there’s a big education story that (A) writes [...]
Challenging the Challenge Index–With Data
Jay Mathews’ online column today focuses on Andy’s and my debate with him about whether his “Challenge Index” method is the best way to identify America’s best high schools. Andy gets to the crux of the issues and notes that some of the schools Jay lauds are actually doing worse than the statewide averages for [...]
More School Time
There are a lot of people celebrating the merits of Time right now. Policy proposals to add time to the school day or school year are popping up in states, districts and even on the national front. More school time is seen as the best way to help schools and students meet higher academic standards [...]
Mathews Gets It Right
Don’t miss Jay Mathews’ terrific op-ed in the Post this morning, which comprehensively debunks the “academically over-stressed teenager” meme as expressed in Alexandra Robbins’ new book, “The Overachievers.” Mathews notes that the allegedly typical high schooler consumed by homework, academics, and other activities focused on admission to an Ivy League school is largely a mirage, [...]
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.