The two dirtiest words in higher education these days are “climbing” and “wall.”
Seriously, if you spend enough time attending conferences, reading op-eds, etc., you come to realize that that climbing walls have somehow come to symbolize all that ails post-secondary education in America today. People are constantly denouncing their proliferation, or loudly noting that their [...]
All Posts Tagged: 'National Survey of Student Engagement'
College Consumerism Run Amok?
More Than Butts in Seats
Education Sector recently completed an extensive process looking at higher education accountability systems in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. In part, we undertook the task to be able to answer comments like this one at the Chronicle of Higher Education:
As a former dean, I was responsible for collecting and reporting [...]
Caught in the Tangled Web
I’ve been doing some background reading for a policy paper about minority college graduation rates this morning, and I ran across a interesting paper written by George Kuh and his colleagues at the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) at Indiana University about the effect of student engagement on students’ grades and likelihood of staying [...]
The Higher Education Lobby 1, Students 0
When special interests subvert good public policy, they usually try to cover their tracks. While people in the know can guess what really happened, both the influencers and the influencees usually create enough plausible deniability to escape blame.
But sometimes it all happens right out in the open, and that in itself tells you a lot [...]
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.