Way back in July, when three feet of snow probably sounded like a good idea in D.C., Education Sector released Drowning in Debt, a super-sized CYCT documenting rising student debt levels over the past 15 years.
A week later, we added a note to the report stating that the data from different years was not necessarily [...]
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Still Drowning in Debt
Charts You Can Trust – Revised
Earlier this week, the National Center for Education Statistics announced technical changes in the measure of student loan amounts for the 2007-08 NPSAS – the survey conducted every four-years on student financial aid. I won’t get into technical details (you can find them here), but the end result limits the ability to compare the most [...]
Colleges Giving Even More Financial Aid to Wealthy Students
Way back in the earliest history of Education Sector–I believe it was January 2006–we published our first “Chart You Can Trust.” It described how colleges are increasingly funneling scholarship money away from lower-income students and instead giving it to wealthy applicants who are more useful for boosting both colleges’ standing in the U.S. News college [...]
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.