The National Governors Association lobbied hard against the “maintenance of effort” provision included in the recent Higher Education Act reauthorization. It should come as no surprise then that the NGA has already asked for an across-the-board waiver, citing the recent economic crisis and expected state government shortfall. The law does include a waiver provision for, [...]
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Don’t Blame the Weather
On Tuesday the Department of Education released its annual report on student loan default rates. Under their official calculations, the rate jumped from 4.6 to 5.2 percent. In the press release announcing the increase they attribute the rise to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Media coverage bought this line, most obviously the Chronicle [...]
Will the real Margaret Spellings please stand up?
Note to NBC: This woman is NOT Margaret Spellings.
This is Margaret Spellings. Yes, the pink suits can be confusing.
Spellings Speech Reax
Fairly high-profile coverage today of Sec. Spellings’ recent speech on higher education, most prominently the lead above-the-fold piece in USA Today, along with articles in the WaPost, NYTimes, Chronicle, and InsiderHigherEd.
Most of the coverage noted the lack of outrage from the higher education community; after months of rumblings and complaints about the Secretary’s reform commission, [...]
Spellings’ Higher Education Agenda
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings gave a televised speech at the National Press Club today outlining her agenda for higher education. The impetus was the released of the final recommendations of the “Commission on the Future of Higher Education,” which she convened last year. All in all she did a good job; while the [...]
Spellings Commission Pulls no Punches
A draft report from Sec. Spellings’ Commission on the Future of Higher Education was released yesterday. Most of what I have to say about it is here, at the always timely and informative InsideHigherEd.com. One point to add: over the course of the months in which the commission has been meeting, the chairman, Charles Miller, [...]
Margaret Spellings, World Traveler
Speaking of thinking about the problems facing children in other countries…CNN.com reports on the seven overseas trips Margaret Spellings has taken since becoming U.S. Secretary of Education a year and a half ago. Some conservatives are criticizing these trips as “junkets;” other commentators say the importance of education to America’s global “competitiveness” requires [...]
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.