Last week, we received a classroom “view” from Sarah Garb, a second grade teacher from Two Rivers Public Charter School here in D.C. We’re thrilled to revive our “View From Your Classroom” series with Sarah’s view. Sarah wrote a whole post about her classroom view (excerpt below) on her blog “Dead Class Poets.” (Sarah’s blog is great and well [...]
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5 Days Left…
If you’re smart, motivated and just can’t learn enough about education policy, then you have 5 more days to apply for the Fordham Fellows program, which promises to open the doors to the D.C. education policy world. For 9 months, you’ll be doing substantial, interesting work in some of D.C.’s best policy organizations (including us, [...]
Paradise on the Potomac? Or a State-like Solution?
Commenting on Mike Casserly’s Sunday Washington Post op-ed, Andy writes:
…The redundancy in education governance in Washington is almost comical. D.C. could do a lot worse than look to Hawaii for some ideas on having a unified state/school district structure since there is only one school district in Washington in the first place.
I’ve got to [...]
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.