Are promoting teacher quality and promoting equal access to good teachers mutually exclusive? Ed Trust doesn’t think so. (Education Trust)
If parents are still their child’s first and most important teacher, will proposed Delaware legislation help them play a more active role? (Delaware Online)
Could the head of a teachers union find happiness running a school system? [...]
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Creeping Big Brotherishness
Objectively speaking, I’m sure that new tools like Edline, which gives parents up-to-the-minute information about their children’s academic progress–class attendance, quiz grades, the whole megillah–are probably a good thing. Identify problems early, keep families engaged with the school community, etc.
But I can’t help but think that if such a tool existed when I was a [...]
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
03/11/10 | 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.