I’m reading the new book from New Republic senior editor Jonathan Chait, The Big Con. It’s really good, describing how “American politics has been hijacked by a tiny coterie of right-wing economic extremists, some of them ideological zealots, others merely greedy, a few of them possibly insane.” Chait shows how a combination of crackpot (i.e. [...]
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Taxing Priorities
An event Wednesday at the joint Urban- Brookings Tax Policy Center highlighted how unnecessarily complex and ineffective the federal student aid programs are, and offered simple solutions for progress.
It has been well-documented that the U.S. is beginning to fall behind in accessibility of college and completion of degrees. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [...]
Crazy Colorado Tax Policy
This article in National Crosstalk is well worth reading, in that it illustrates what happens when the sensible, democratically-expressed desires of the citizenry to invest public resources in important things like higher education run up against mind-bendingly foolish, anti-democratic conservative tax policies like Colorado’s TABOR law. The result: a pointlessly complicated, Rube Goldbergian higher education [...]
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.