It’s frustrating watching the stimulus bill be held up and criticized because of allegations of pork contained within, as if we know anything about what the pork actually aims to accomplish. It’s easy to look at the provision’s title and label it wasteful, but more difficult to actually determine its merits. It reminds me of [...]
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John McCain’s Higher Education Platform
John McCain quietly released his higher education platform last week. It hasn’t drawn much notice, perhaps because it’s only newsworthy in its lack of depth. Sure, one can’t really disagree that we need to “Prepare for the 21st Century in Higher Education” or “Improve Information for Parents,” but those are pretty weak platitudes [...]
Republican Vice Presidential Picks and Education
While the edublogosphere has analyzed the candidates positions on education, speculated on various Secretary of Education possibilities, and commented on education spokespersons, it has yet to produce anything substantive on the policies of likely vice presidential picks. In order to keep the list manageable and relevant to TQATE, this discussion is limited only to [...]
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John McCain spent a lot of time in his NAACP speech in Cincinnati yesterday talking about the many teacher reforms he’d put in place–performance pay, a greater role for principals in staffing matters, and peer evaluations, among them. If McCain’s education advisors had been on the ball, they would have told the presumptive Republican presidential [...]
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.