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It’s commonly believed that higher education suffers from an acute case of “Baumol’s Cost Disease,” an affliction that causes labor-intensive industries to become [...]
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Vouchers R.I.P.?
The Century Foundation’s Greg Anrig, author of the recently-published The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing, has good piece in this month’s Washington Monthly declaring the decline and fall of school vouchers. Whether they’re quite as dead as Greg suggests is probably a matter of legitimate debate, but his essential points are [...]
Fame and Fortune are Only an Excel Spreadsheet Away
Today’s your lucky day. You, personally, can join the elite circle of infamous college rankers, and accrue all the notoriety it entails.
Here’s why: a few months ago, I wrote an article for Washington Monthly that included a ranking of “America’s Best Community Colleges,” along with a profile of Cascadia Community College, one of the best. [...]
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.