The Atlantic has a fine piece by David Goldhill this month looking at health care costs. There are numerous parallels between Goldhill’s points on out-of-control health care costs and, mainly higher, education.
First, government efforts to control costs have failed. Goldhill explains that the frequent attention on prices ignores costs. There’s a difference. Prices are something [...]
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Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care (and Education)
The Saga of Professor X
The Atlantic article I wrote about last week, from Professor X, has generated a lot of discussion over the last week or so. (Brief aside: is there a more pseudonym-inspiring profession than non-tenured college professor? Seriously, these folks don’t seem able or willing to order pizza using their own names. I’m sure there are good [...]
Cruel, But Not a Hoax
There’s a good higher education article in the The Atlantic this month titled “In The Basement of the Ivory Tower.” It’s written by an anonymous “Professor X,” an adjunct English instructor at both a small private college and a community college in the northeast. The gist is that many of his students are woefully unprepared [...]
Godless Educrats?
The Atlantic’s 150th Anniversary issue arrived at my house last week, and I’ve been leafing through the selection of short essays at the front about “The Future of the American Idea.” The quality varies a lot–Edward O. Wilson’s 400 words are a model of economy and clarity, the policiticians, not so much. One of the [...]
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.