It was a little strange to be sitting in the Mayflower Hotel this morning listening to U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings say that “Rome is burning!” with respect to American educational outcomes when Wall Street really does seem to be burning, but these events get scheduled far in advance and her larger point that [...]
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Fiddling
September 15th, 2008 | Category: Undergraduate Education
Posted by Kevin Carey at 11:18 am | Tags: American Competitiveness, Graduate Studies, Postsecondary Education, Secretary Margaret Spellings, Sir Michael Barber | No Comments
Winning the Lottery
March 6th, 2007 | Category: Educational Choice
Via Crooked Timber, controvery in England over student assignment to schools (which they refer to as admissions). The Department for Eduction and Skills, equivalent of the U.S. Department of Education, has established new regulations that try to make student assignment to schools fairer through a variety of measures. Admissions criteria, such as interviews and [...]
Posted by Sara Mead at 8:16 am | Tags: Education in the UK, Public School Choice, School Assignment, Sir Michael Barber | No Comments
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.