This story in today’s Post about the 27 schools in DCPS that are in “restructuring” mode under NCLB is well worth reading. Faced with a federal mandate to choose among various reforms–charter school conversion, private management, replacing teachers and principals, etc.–Chancellor Rhee decided to send groups of outside teachers, parents, students and educators into the [...]
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Democracts and NCLB
Sam Dillon’s Times front-pager on NCLB-bashing among Democratic presidential candidates came out a few days before I hit the road to spend Christmas with the fam, but apparently I’m not the only one who didn’t get to it until after the New Year. As Eduwonk notes, the buried lede in that piece was the major [...]
Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed 
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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.