If you missed Education Sector’s talk last week with author Peg Tyre you can listen to it below. The discussion features Tyre, best-selling author of The Trouble with Boys, New America Foundation Senior Analyst Sara Mead, and USA Today columnist Richard Whitmire. Topics ranged from gender differences in NAEP scores and ADHD diagnoses to boy-girl [...]
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The Trouble with Boys: Author Talk with Peg Tyre
This podcast was recorded at an Education Sector–hosted reception, book signing, and discussion with Peg Tyre, author of The Trouble With Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do. (Crown Publishers).
Tyre was joined by Sara Mead, a senior research fellow in the Education Policy Program at [...]
Special Ed Vouchers
Governor Palin’s speech on special education last here has drawn a fair amount of commentary; Sara Mead provides a comprehensive analysis here. As Mead notes, one of the main proposals was to create a voucher program for students with disabilities modeled on the McKay Scholarship program in Florida. Sara wrote a comprehensive analysis of that [...]
Hot Boys
Education Sector non-resident senior fellow Peg Tyre, a former education correspondent at Newsweek, is streaking towards the best-seller lists with her just-published book, The Trouble with Boys, a thoroughly researched and deftly written contribution to the raging national debate over if–and if so, why–boys are strugging to stay up with girls in today’s increasingly competitive [...]
Sara Returns
Former Education Sector staffer Sara Mead not only authored many of this blog’s best posts in its first year of existence, she also came up with the name. I’ve always harbored a secret, irrational hope that she’d come back to the Q&E fold but now that she’s launched a brand-new early education blog at the [...]
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 [...]
My Very Smart Baby
Have you read Sara Mead’s report, Million Dollar Babies? You should. It will tell you all about how we, as parents, future parents, educators and policymakers, shouldn’t get caught up in the mass marketing hype around baby products that claim to make our babies smarter. Disclaimer: if you search my home you will find [...]
Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed 
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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.