The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the struggle over high school boundaries in Plano, Texas — a debate involving changing demographics, protests against busing, and questions of educational opportunity and equity. A well-to-do suburb of Dallas, Plano has experienced growth over the past two decades in the number of minority students attending (like [...]
All Posts Tagged: 'School Choice Markets'
Erin Dillon on Successful School-Choice Markets
In this podcast, Erin Dillon discusses the findings from her report, Food for Thought, in which she examines successful grocery and banking initiatives in low-income neighborhoods. She also discusses what choice-school operators can learn from banks and grocery stores, and how these lessons can help create functional school-choice markets in underserved neighborhoods.
The research for this report [...]
The Sugar
If you drive away from the center of Washington, DC on East Capitol Street, around RFK Stadium and across the Anacostia River, you eventually come to the intersection with Benning Road, and a Denny’s. For the last decade, the pancake emporium has been the only-sit down restaurant in Ward 7 and as such a symbol of [...]
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.