The murders in Huntsville are obviously a horrible tragedy. Blog posts using them to debate tenure or what have you are likely to be tasteless and/or banal. So I’ll just say that Thomas Bartlett and Robin Wilson of the Chronicle of Higher Education have been way out in front of everyone in covering the story. [...]
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Memory Lane
If you’ve ever wondered what kind of rigorous undergraduate education is required to snag a coveted position as blogger / columnist / magazine writer / think tank guy / occasional commenter on comic books and cable TV shows, take a look at my latest column in the Chronicle of Higher Education. I’m pretty sure this [...]
The Problem With Saving For College
A few weeks ago the New York Times “Education Life” section published a long piece about saving for college. The premise is that, if current trends continue, college will eventually become so expensive that parents need to to start socking money away from pretty much the moment their eyes first lock across a crowded restaurant. [...]
Goldilocks and Pell Grants
It’s hard to make everyone happy on federal financial aid. Postsecondary institutions and state legislators decry the declining value of the Pell Grant over time. They’re right; it does buy less than it used to. But, federal legislators argue the Pell, the primary vehicle for student aid for low-income students, has been regularly increased and [...]
More Than Butts in Seats
Education Sector recently completed an extensive process looking at higher education accountability systems in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. In part, we undertook the task to be able to answer comments like this one at the Chronicle of Higher Education:
As a former dean, I was responsible for collecting and reporting [...]
Reason to Worry
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Paul Basken reports today that student loan providers are worrying about the economic health of colleges. Private colleges that don’t have a large endowment and are heavily dependent on tuition for revenue could face problems balancing their budgets in light of the recent tightening in the private student loan market. [...]
Brainstorm
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving break. Mine was excellent, including a trip to New York to see The Seagull, right up until the part that involved being on the southbound New Jersey Turnpike at 11PM in the middle of a rainstorm, stop-and-go-traffic, etc. Then, not so much.
Announcement: Starting today I’m going to be a [...]
More from The Chronicle
The Chronicle of Higher Education starts a new series today, “Sticker Shock”, focused on the rising cost of higher education—it’s not a new topic, but as the author, Goldie Blumenstyk, says, it’s “damnably complex,” and there are no clear solutions. With The Chronicle’s deep knowledge of higher education issues, this should be an enlightening series.
In [...]
Don’t Blame the Weather
On Tuesday the Department of Education released its annual report on student loan default rates. Under their official calculations, the rate jumped from 4.6 to 5.2 percent. In the press release announcing the increase they attribute the rise to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Media coverage bought this line, most obviously the Chronicle [...]
Fact Check
The New York Times, April 20, 2008:
The number of low-income students at top institutions is still fairly low but is growing. The share of Harvard undergraduates receiving Pell grants rose to 13 percent this year, from 10 percent in 2003-4. At Amherst, over the same span, the number has risen to 18 percent from 15 [...]
Lede of the Day
“Free stuff makes people happy, but free stuff shot from cannons makes them jump and cheer like crazed monkeys.”
From an Eric Hoover piece($) in The Chronicle of Higher Education, about a guy who owns a company that makes those portable CO2 cannons that launch rolled-up T-shirts in sports stadiums and arenas across the land.
A New Twist on Summers
The Chronicle of Higher Education has published juicy sections of the conclusion to former Dean of Harvard College Harry R. Lewis’ forthcoming book Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education. Lewis, the Dean from 1995 until he was forced out by Larry Summers because of “organizational restructuring” in 2003 (though still a [...]
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.