Matt Yglesias has a smart post about how some people are too quick to succumb to paranoid interpretation of NCLB–that the 100 percent proficient target is a conspiracy to destroy public education. As he rightly points out, it’s a strange anti-public education conspiracy that counts Ted Kennedy and George Miller as enthusiastic members, but excludes [...]
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Is Our Students Learning?
New article in The Washington Monthly from yours truly focusing on the wealth of new data about how well colleges and universities are educating their students–and why you can’t see it. Part of the Monthly’s annual alternate college rankings issue, already causing a ruckus at The Political Animal.
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.