A couple of weeks ago I published a column in the Chronicle of Higher Education more or less denouncing 529 college savings plans on the grounds that policymakers have used them to avoid the hard choices inherent to actually keeping college affordable while simultaneously inducing families to gamble away their hard-earned money in a casino run [...]
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2010 Budget
The Department of Education today released its 2010 budget. You can read the full thing or check out Alyson Klein’s first look. Things that I noticed:
the budget shifts money around reading and early childhood. It would cut Reading First state grants and Even Start while creating two new programs called “Title I early childhood grants” [...]
Goodbye, for now
This is a sad post for me to write, since it’s probably going to be my last here for a while.
As Andy mentioned in an incredibly kind post over at Eduwonk, today is my last day at Education Sector. In a few weeks I’ll be starting a new job at the New America Foundation, where [...]
Selling EdFund
Via New America Foundation, Schwarzenegger is considering selling California’s state guarantee agency, EdFund, to a private, potentially for-profit, loan company. In the federal loan program, guarantee agencies not only insure student loans, they also provide oversight by ensuring that lenders perform the required due diligence to collect loans and prevent defaults.
The Institute for College Access [...]
Cuomo finds "uholy alliances"
Yesterday, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced that there might just be something to all those allegations of “kickbacks” and “unholy alliances” between lenders and financial aid offices—alliances that in the end benefit colleges and lenders more than students.
Check out the full story here, and New America Foundation’s (perhaps too gleeful) commentary here. Cuomo [...]
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.