The Civil Rights Project is dropping Harvard to move across the country to its new home at UCLA, where it will focus its efforts on immigrant and Latino issues.
A win for California and UCLA, who picks up not only CRP co-founder Gary Orfield but also Orfield’s new wife, UC-Davis professor and associate director of the [...]
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Dropping Harvard
The Allegedly Ever-Tightening College Admissions Rat Race, Part MCMDLXVII
The New York Times has an article today with a pile of anecdotes and a small amount of data suggesting that many high school students are now applying to as many 20 elite colleges, in some cases just for fun. Predictably, it’s already up on their list of most emailed articles. Why? Because this is [...]
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.