The Post ran two education stories yesterday, both unsatisfying, albeit in different ways. (Although it’s possible that my mood was altered after reading that great/scary profile of the Vice President…)
The front-page piece, about teacher shortages, reads like the prologue to a good article about big-picture teacher policy issues. I just wish they had written the [...]
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Too Few Teachers, Too Many Consultants?
Teacher Voice on Master’s Degrees
AFTie Ed responds to the posts below on Master’s degrees, just after I chided union blogs for non-responsiveness. My bad. His arguments, as near as I can tell, are as follows:
1) Unions like the AFT are supporting progams right now in places like New Mexico that expand the kinds of professional development for which teachers [...]
Radio Silence from Teachers Unions
After near 24 hours, no response yet from my challenge to teachers union bloggers to defend the indefensible–spending billions of dollars of taxpayer’s and teachers money on Master’s degrees that don’t improve teaching. (It’s possible ,of course, that Leo Casey is simply in the middle of composing an 8,000-word response and has been held up [...]
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.