Occasionally I’ll use phrases like “conspiracy to destroy public education” in these pages, and you, faithful reader, may reasonably wonder whether I’m exaggerating for dramatic effect. I wish I were. But no, there really are people out there who simply want to dismantle the entire enterprise, despite evidence of public education’s benefits so obvious that [...]
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Business Schools
British journalist Peter Curran hosts a series of half-hour videos on American public schools. In this one, “Education USA- Profiting from School”, he examines the corporate role in public education, visiting an Edison school in Las Vegas, talking with Lowell Milken in Los Angeles, and visiting D.C. to meet with ES’s own Tom Toch.
The Education Tax Credit Endgame
Andrew Coulson tries again to convince us that education tax credit’s aren’t the same thing as public funding, and fails because he ignores my key points: Education Tax Credits have the same impact on individual and government budgets as would government expenditures for the same purpose, and unlike broad tax cuts, the linkage of tax [...]
One More Thing…
On the topic of the anti-public education conspiracy. One could plausibly argue that the worse thing President Bush has done to public education is not embrace the education policies of the radical right. After all, the chief historical legacy of the Bush Administration will be exposing just how foolish the various policy fantasies of the [...]
The Phantom Pro-NCLB Anti-Public Education Conspiracy
Following up on the post below about the notion that NCLB is just a stalking horse for a broader conspiracy against public education.
Over the last six years, the Bush administration has supported a whole range of radical and/or deeply conservative policies, and in many cases they’ve managed to spin these ideas as sensible and/or moderate. [...]
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.